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The "chasing arrows" logo is universally recognized as a sign to recycle, but the Environmental Protection Agency is now saying it's also universally confusing. It's recommending tossing the symbol ...

It was 1970 when Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California, saw a poster for a design competition. The task was to design a symbol for recycling in ...

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“Blue bin it” means recycle it in Onondaga County. But hundreds of the containers that for 20 years have held plastic bottles and newspapers are heading to the recycle pile themselves. A garbage ...

Gary Anderson was a college kid in California when he saw the poster on a bulletin board. It was advertising a design competition to create a symbol that would let people know that the cardboard ...