Once the symbol was operational, Freeman said, “then everybody started putting it on everything.” Companies worked to make it official: Starting in 1989, the Plastic Bottle Institute lobbied ...

You’ve seen the little recycling symbols ... Recycle bottles, cans, paper, and cardboard. Number 2: Keep food and liquid out of your recycling. Number 3: No loose plastic bags and no bagged ...

Symbol 5 – Polypropylene, PP, used in products such as pill bottles, yogurt cups and plastic utensils. However, these aren’t accepted in some facilities for reasons I’ll explain. Some ...

A recycling symbol is seen on a laundry detergent bottle in a bale of plastic ... which would allow companies to reduce plastic use across their entire product line instead of on a product-by ...