Plastic recycling symbols only tell you what type of plastic an item is made from — not that the item is recyclable. Plastics 1, 2, and 5 are typically recyclable, while 3, 4, 6, and 7 can ...

Recycling symbol #7 is a catch-all for all other types of plastic. You may see this on some citrus juice bottles, custom packaging or mixed packaging featuring different plastics.

Recycling the wrong things makes the whole system run slower. Here are seven takeout containers that don't belong in your ...

A West Des Moines family is displaying a year's worth of plastic waste that wasn't allowed to go into their recycling. Why it ...

What no one anticipated was just how emotionally attached people would become to recycling as the solution to America’s ugly trash problem. When the chasing arrows’ promise of rebirth was ...

Without effective plastic recycling, the symbol simply can’t work in the way in which it was initially intended. Gary Anderson, who designed the logo in 1970, told The New York Times, “I do ...

RIC: #5 Until recently, you couldn’t recycle the lids that screwed off plastic bottles. Thanks to some recent technological changes, however, more recycling centers can now accept them.

According to the PGA, an estimated 812,010,000 pounds of post-consumer film (including plastic bags) was recovered in 2006, representing a 24 percent increase from figures in 2005. Bag manufacturers ...

Dear Tee Cee: Why don’t Boulder County’s recycling guidelines mention the numbers inside plastic recycling symbols? I have a plastic food container with No. 5 inside the symbol, but I c… ...

A survey of household consumers in the United Kingdom conducted by online retailer Plasticsheetsshop found more than 85 percent of respondents understood the meaning of 6 of the 7 recycling symbols ...

Despite the ubiquitous "chasing arrows" symbols, in much of the country only a few plastic bottles and jugs can be recycled. Much of the rest ends up in landfills.