Recycling symbol

Picture of Recycling symbol, symbol for recycling activity
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 Wednesday April 22, 1970
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Basic information

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others
Country
United States
Description
symbol for recycling activity

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. 

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Mercury
227 years
Venus
88.87 years
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29.07 years
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4.61 years
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