This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "chasing arrows" logo is universally recognized as a sign to recycle, but the Environmental Protection Agency is now saying it ...

Last week, I had the honor of making a lunchtime presentation to the lovely ladies of the Somis Thursday Club. I asked them, “How do you know whether something is recyclable?” The first response was, ...