Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

Over dinner, I share something surprising I recently learned: the recycle symbol on plastic isn’t a guarantee your item is ...

Most commonly, these symbols appear with a number — 1 through 7 — that identifies the type of plastic resin a product is made of. A number 1, for instance, corresponds to polyethylene ...

His symbol was not widely adopted initially. Anderson recalled that the first time he saw the symbol in public was years later, when he spotted it on recycling bins in Amsterdam in the late 1970s.

Environment Nation Nation & World His recycling symbol is everywhere. The EPA says it shouldn’t be. Aug. 7, 2023 at 11:11 am By Chang Che ...

In 2012, 32.5 million tons of plastic waste was produced globally. 4.5 million tons of which was poly (ethylene terephthalate), better known as PET. You likely know this as the plastic that has the ...

The higher the number, the harder it is to recycle the product, which means there’s less of a market to sell them. NBC6 visited a recycling facility in Pembroke Pines to see it firsthand.