Reuse and refill businesses in the Portland area are among the initial adopters of PR3’s new logo that organizers hope ...

As part of a more effective network of reuse infrastructure, this new symbol could be a catalyst for more effective waste ...

The Global Alliance to Advance Reuse and comes amid growing concerns that recycling alone cannot solve the plastic waste ...

A global alliance of businesses, governments, and designers just unveiled a universal mark for reuse—and it could reshape how ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...