WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — The "chasing arrows" logo is universally recognized as a sign to recycle, but the Environmental Protection Agency is now saying it's also universally confusing.

At issue is the chasing arrows symbol combined with “resin identification code,” a number from 1 through 7 that appears in the middle of the symbol.

The circular chasing arrows “seems to be just the kind of thing that we were hoping to push back against,” said California State Senator Ben Allen, a Democrat who sponsored a landmark bill to ...

After 50 years, the “chasing arrows” recycling symbol may be heading in a new direction, The New York Times reported. While it will remain widely in use on many recyclables, the Environmental ...

The iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol, invented 20 years earlier, was everywhere in the early 1990s.

Consumers have long treated the chasing-arrows logo, designed by a UCLA student in 1970, as an indication an item can be recycled. That isn't always the case.

Good intentions can often be wasted by misinterpreting what that symbol actually means. What many confuse as the recycling symbol on plastic packaging is actually called a resin identification code.

The winning black-ink icon that Anderson created featured a series of folded arrows chasing one another in a triangle. It would become one of the most recognizable icons in the world. “I had an ...

It also addressed potential confusion created by the “chasing arrows” recycling symbol, which often identifies the type of plastic resin used in a product, using the numbers 1 through 7.

Back then, the group found that only certain kinds of bottles and jugs met the federal government's definition for "recyclable" and could legally bear the chasing arrows symbol: Those bearing the ...