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
- 56 days from now, August 30, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 234th Mercury age
- 81 days from now, September 24, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 30th Mars age
- 109 days from now, October 22, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 57th half birthday
- 144 days from now, November 26, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 235th Mercury age
144 days from now, November 26, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 92nd Venus age - 170 days from now, December 22, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 680 months
- 232 days from now, February 22, 2027, Recycling symbol celebrate 236th Mercury age
- 291 days from now, April 22, 2027, Recycling symbol celebrate 57th birthday
- 305 days from now, May 6, 2027, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 1,800,000,000 seconds
305 days from now, May 6, 2027, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 30,000,000 minutes
305 days from now, May 6, 2027, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 500,000 hours - 320 days from now, May 21, 2027, Recycling symbol celebrate 237th Mercury age