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 ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Editor’s note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more,visit aspenjournalism.org. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California has moved one step closer to banning recycling symbols on things that aren't recyclable. Late Wednesday, the state's assembly passed a bill to ban the use of the ...

Running out of your favourite blusher or mascara is often met with the thrill of shopping for new make-up, with the empty tube long forgotten. For those who do try to recycle regularly, we see the ...

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 ...

You see them all the time, but what do they mean? What's the purpose? Today I write about that little symbol found on plastics - the recycle symbol with the number in the middle. Turns out this symbol ...

Every morning, when state Sen. Ben Allen would grab the newspaper from outside his Santa Monica home, he’d pull off the plastic sleeve bearing the triangular recycling symbol and throw it where he ...

That instinct to drop anything plastic, paper or cardboard into the recycling bin is hard to shake, but it's also one of the ...