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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment.

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’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 ...

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 ...

Waste is a major problem in almost every country around the world, accounting for 3 per cent of yearly greenhouse emissions in the EU alone. Large landfill sites, often sited in developing countries, ...

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 ...

Recycling can be confusing. Use these symbols to decode what and how best to recycle. Recycling is highly beneficial to the environment. It creates less waste and minimizes demand for raw materials ...

More than half of Britons are baffled by basic recycling symbols found on everyday products, a survey has found. A poll of supermarket shoppers suggests 61 per cent of people do not know what nine of ...

Metro.co.uk‘s #Just1Change campaign is showing readers how making one small change can help the ongoing climate crisis. The world’s leaders are currently at COP26 discussing what they can do on a ...