The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

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.

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

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.

In 2020, the Flexible Packaging Association said the U.S. recycling rate for post-consumer film and flexible plastic packaging was just 2 percent.

Gary Anderson, 75, who designed the widely known recycling symbol when he was a university student in 1970, at his home in Baltimore. Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times ...

The recycling symbol isn’t copyrighted, which means any plastic-producing company can slap it on their products, even if they aren’t recyclable. That piece of paper or plastic that we supposed ...