For years, Gary Anderson's friends even didn't know he designed the three iconic arrows.

Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1970 when he entered a design contest sponsored by a box manufacturer for a logo to ...

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Editor’s note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more,visit aspenjournalism.org. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the ...

WOODINVILLE, WA. -- The conveyor belts zip along at blinding speed and rows of workers at the Waste Management Recycling Center do their best to keep up. Their job is to pull the un-recyclables from ...

One of the most recognized logos around, the recycling symbol, is in line for a major revamp. California recently became the first state to restrict the use of the widely known "chasing arrows" symbol ...

Every morning, when state Sen. Ben Allen would grab the newspaper from outside his Santa Monica home, he’d pull off the plastic sleeve bearing the triangular recycling symbol and throw it where he ...

You know that little triangle with the number inside that you see on practically every plastic item you've ever touched? The one that made you feel good about tossing your yogurt container into 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 ...

The Progressive Bag Affiliates has launched an initiative to promote bag recycling throughout the nation. Several of the country's biggest bag manufacturers will begin printing a message on their bags ...