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.

In 1970, Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old college student at the University of Southern California, when a Chicago container company held a design contest to raise awareness about the environment.

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

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The triangular loop of arrows that has been the universal symbol of recycling for the ...

M etal Packaging Europe (MPE), the Brussels-based umbrella organization representing producers and suppliers of rigid metal packaging across Europe, has introduced a new recycling logo that the ...

KitKat has replaced its logo after discovering half of Australian consumers do not know how to recycle properly. The confectionery giant has changed the logo on its wrappers to KitKat chocolate wafers ...

How confident are you that you always put the right rubbish in the right bin? Getting it wrong means that waste that could potentially be recycled isn't, or that recycling gets contaminated with ...

The milk chocolate bar found on the front of its packaging will temporarily be replaced with a recycling symbol. It comes after a study commissioned by KitKat found that while 80 per cent of Aussies ...

DENTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Carton Council of North America is proud to announce that 60 percent of U.S. households are able to recycle food and beverage cartons through their local recycling ...

Pacific Steel & Recycling, a steel service center and scrap metal recycler, has introduced a new logo. According to a press release from the company, “The launch of the new logo and signage will ...

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