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.

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 ...

California’s familiar milk cartons, long stamped with the chasing-arrows recycling logo, are suddenly at the center of a high-stakes test of what “recyclable” really means. A shift in how the state’s ...

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 ...

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill into law that prohibits the “chasing arrows” — a symbol that tells a consumer that an item is recyclable — from being placed on an item that ...