You’ve seen the little recycling symbols stamped on plastics ... Caps are often made of a different kind of plastic than the bottle they go with, and they're small, so they should go into ...

One of the main barriers to recycling is the confusion around the symbols because each represents different types of materials with distinct recycling instructions. So, before tossing an item into ...

According to the Consumer Brands Association, many of the people who responded to their 2019 survey were confused about what the seven different recycling symbols actually meant and represented.

Plastic bottles, single-use food containers or even detergent containers, for example, can have a range of different recycling symbols on them, and not every county or town accepts the same items.

In a 2019 survey conducted by the Consumer Brands Association on what they labeled the “broken recycling system in America,” 68 percent of respondents said that they assumed any product with symbols ...