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. It's recommending tossing the symbol ...

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 ...

As the agency struggles to address low recycling rates, it argues updates to the iconic chasing arrows recycling symbol would reduce “consumer confusion.” EPA is urging the Federal Trade Commission to ...

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 ...

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 ...

California’s familiar milk cartons, long stamped with the chasing-arrows recycling logo, are suddenly at the center of a high ...

Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty & ...

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9 percent of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the ...

Milk cartons may lose the recycling symbol in California, potentially making the material unusable in the state.