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
- 45 days from now, June 10, 2024, Recycling symbol celebrate 88th Venus age
- 57 days from now, June 22, 2024, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 650 months
- 65 days from now, June 30, 2024, Recycling symbol celebrate 225th Mercury age
- 153 days from now, September 26, 2024, Recycling symbol celebrate 226th Mercury age
- 179 days from now, October 22, 2024, Recycling symbol celebrate 55th half birthday
- 194 days from now, November 6, 2024, Recycling symbol celebrate 29th Mars age
- 241 days from now, December 23, 2024, Recycling symbol celebrate 227th Mercury age
- 270 days from now, January 21, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 89th Venus age
- 272 days from now, January 23, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 480,000 hours
272 days from now, January 23, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 20,000 days - 329 days from now, March 21, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 228th Mercury age