This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...

Most of us grew up sorting our trash with the quiet confidence that the plastic we set out on the curb would find a second life. The recycling symbol, with its three chasing arrows, felt like a ...

I pull into my driveway on a Wednesday night, which means it is time to take the garbage and recycling out to the curb. My neighbors have done the same, and our streets are lined with containers ...

Have you ever looked at the small triangle with a number printed at the bottom of a plastic bottle or container? It may seem ...