Recycling symbol
Basic information
Container Corporation of America (CCA), a paperboard company, sponsored a nationwide art contest looking for a design that would help identify the company's recycled products.
Designed in 1970 by student at the University of Southern California, Gary Dean Anderson. He based his inspiration for the cyclical recycling symbol on the Mobius Strip, which is associated with the 'reduce, reuse, recycle' slogan.
The symbol is not trademarked and is in the public domain, so anyone may use or modify the recycling symbol.
Worldwide now are countless variants of original logo, the logo is usually displayed with the arrows circulating clockwise.
In 1988, the Society of Plastics Institute (SPI) developed a system of codes and symbols of their own, to facilitate the sorting of plastics.
Half birthday 
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Age in different time units
Planet Age
How old Recycling symbol would be if it was started on a different planet
- 39 days from now, June 3, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 233rd Mercury age
- 127 days from now, August 30, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 234th Mercury age
- 152 days from now, September 24, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 30th Mars age
- 180 days from now, October 22, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 57th half birthday
- 215 days from now, November 26, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 235th Mercury age
215 days from now, November 26, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 92nd Venus age - 241 days from now, December 22, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 680 months
- 303 days from now, February 22, 2027, Recycling symbol celebrate 236th Mercury age
- 362 days from now, April 22, 2027, Recycling symbol celebrate 57th birthday