The Federal Trade Commission is preparing an update to use of sustainability labels, including the recycling symbol.

Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it ...

The proposed labels are “an obvious and transparent attempt by industry to circumvent California law,” said Howie Hirsch, a retired lawyer in California who has worked on several recycling-related ...

Nobody wants it. Yet corporations continue to imprint their plastic packaging with the iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol, a symbol that, for plastic, has become all but meaningless.

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