Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PET or PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) is the most common plastic for single-use bottled beverages because it's inexpensive, ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Editor’s note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more,visit aspenjournalism.org. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the ...

California is on track to become the first state to restrict how the "chasing arrows" recycling symbol is used, a move that could have an impact across the country. California state lawmakers passed a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "chasing arrows" logo is universally recognized as a sign to recycle, but the Environmental Protection Agency is now saying it ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment.

In a 2019 survey conducted by the Consumer Brands Association on what they labeled the “broken recycling system in America,” 68 percent of respondents said that they assumed any product with symbols ...

A survey in the United Kingdom found that recycling-related symbols placed on packaging are understood by most household consumers. When uncertain about which bin to use for a particular piece of ...

Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1970 when he entered a design contest sponsored by a box manufacturer for a logo to ...