Re:California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that a...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:52AM
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> Are people actually getting confused by this?
Yes. Until about 3 minutes ago, I believed this symbol meant "recycleable", and just assumed that it's another case where producers can't (or don't want to) agree on a single symbol scheme.
Re:California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that a...
by andyjohnson0 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @10:14AM
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Yes. This is pointed-out in the wikipedia article.
Also, anecdotally, I know multiple people who believed (and in some cases still insist) that it indicates recyclability.
Metalized plastic film (as used as packaging for potato chips / crisps) is particularly aggravating because it will often be printed with a green dot but is very rarely recycled, and it effectively poisons the genuinely recyclable material that it is often mixed with.
Are people actually getting confused by this? It looks very very different from the recycling symbol. It's a different shape both inside and out, a different color, has a different number of arrows, and the arrows abut. It doesn't look anything the same to me.