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Best RECYCLE SYMBOL Dictionary Ever (absolutely FREE Clip art!) DID YOU KNOW? RECYCLE Symbol History: The COLOR that most often symbolizes recycling is Green. However, there are many Graphic SYMBOLS for RECYCLING: Scroll down and see what you find! The recycling symbol you see today with three arrows in the triangle shape was designed in 1970 as part of a contest sponsored by the Container Corporation of America (CCA) (now Jefferson Smurfit Corporation). As a special event for the original Earth Day in 1970 (started by John Mc Connell), CCA conducted a contest for graphic art students to design a symbol representing paper recycling. The winning entry was submitted by Gary Dean Anderson, a 5-year architecture student at the University of Southern California at Los Angels. Later that year, William Lloyd, modified the contest winning recycling symbol to create the present-day image. This collection is the best web-wide: Recycle Symbols of the world, glass, plastic, paper, wood, metal, cardboard, batteries, soil, packaging symbols, globes and recycle clip art. The Recycle Symbol: This symbol is called the Mobius Loop:               Other Recycle Images: World Globes RecycleProduct Labels:   Metals         Soil Recycle Batteries "blue Angel" Paper National Assoc Paper Merchants   Plastic The numbers represent what type of material it is. That's why 1 is always associated with PETE as 2 is with HDPE. o E POLYTHEN TEREPHTHALATE (PET) is a material widely used for packaging biodegradable plastic Cardboard Most commonly found on cardboard packaging and denotes that the item is recyclable. If the centre of the loop contains a number, this means that the item is made from a certain percentage of recycled materials.   Glass     Wood International Green Spot Germany Swedish "Nordic White Swan" European Union ECO     German 1. 2. UK UK Packagaing TIDY Symbol     Taiwan Japan

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