You’ve seen the little recycling symbols stamped on plastics ... Plastics 1, 2, and 5 are typically recyclable, whereas plastics 3, 4, 6, and 7 tend to be harder to recycle.

Roughly 5 to 6 percent of plastic in the United States ... They look at the stuff that they bought from the store, they see recycling symbols on it and they put it in the recycling bin.” ...

There's multiple recycling symbols all with different meanings that ... PP is used in Tupperware, disposable cups, and some food containers. 6 - PS, Polystyrene or Styrofoam, again this is hard ...

6 = PS (Polystyrene or Styrofoam – hard or not possible to recycle) 7 = other (usually a mix of different plastics and is unlikely to be recyclable) Meanwhile, the 'alu' symbol means an item is ...

Bottles and jugs marked with recycling symbols 1 and 2 are usually recyclable. Plastics marked 3, 4, 6 or 7 are seldom recycled. A new report from Greenpeace finds that as little as 5 percent of ...

The iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol, invented 20 years earlier ... In March of that year, a barge teeming with 6 million pounds of trash left Long Island, New York, looking to unload ...