What the recycling symbols on your plastic rubbish actually mean

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...
Scientific American

How the Recycling Symbol Duped People into Buying More Plastic

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 ...
PBS

Plastic Recycling

Plastic has many benefits, but recycling it has many challenges, including energy and emissions. Plastic is cheap, lightweight, strong and versatile, so we use it in millions of products. But there ...
Outside

The 5 Most Common Recycling Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them

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