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
- 0 days from now, January 23, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 480,000 hours
Today, January 23, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 20,000 days - 57 days from now, March 21, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 228th Mercury age
- 90 days from now, April 22, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 55th birthday
90 days from now, April 22, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 660 months - 139 days from now, June 10, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 29,000,000 minutes
- 145 days from now, June 17, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 229th Mercury age
- 224 days from now, September 3, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 90th Venus age
- 233 days from now, September 12, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 230th Mercury age
- 273 days from now, October 22, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 56th half birthday
- 300 days from now, November 19, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 2,900 weeks
- 321 days from now, December 9, 2025, Recycling symbol celebrate 231st Mercury age