Recycling can be confusing enough as it is. To help, here's what those little numbers in recycling symbols actually mean.

The iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol, invented 20 years earlier, was everywhere in the early 1990s. Its tight spiral of folded arrows seemed to promise that discarded glass bottles and ...

A survey in the United Kingdom found that recycling-related symbols placed on packaging may either not be noticed or ...

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 ...