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
- 31 days from now, February 22, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 670 months
- 44 days from now, March 7, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 232nd Mercury age
- 52 days from now, March 15, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate exactly 490,000 hours
- 83 days from now, April 15, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 91st Venus age
- 90 days from now, April 22, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 56th birthday
- 132 days from now, June 3, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 233rd Mercury age
- 220 days from now, August 30, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 234th Mercury age
- 245 days from now, September 24, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 30th Mars age
- 273 days from now, October 22, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 57th half birthday
- 308 days from now, November 26, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 235th Mercury age
308 days from now, November 26, 2026, Recycling symbol celebrate 92nd Venus age