Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "chasing arrows" logo is universally recognized as a sign to recycle, but the Environmental Protection Agency is now saying it ...

Knowing what you can and can't recycle is important, otherwise you can contaminate a whole bin.

It was 1970 when Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California, saw a poster for a design competition. The task was to design a symbol for recycling in ...

For most of the last decade, recycling felt like a stable habit. You sorted your bottles, flattened your cardboard, and ...

A survey in the United Kingdom found that recycling-related symbols placed on packaging are understood by most household consumers. When uncertain about which bin to use for a particular piece of ...

“Blue bin it” means recycle it in Onondaga County. But hundreds of the containers that for 20 years have held plastic bottles and newspapers are heading to the recycle pile themselves. A garbage ...