{"id":481593,"date":"2026-05-12T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481593\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:43:12","slug":"california-is-poised-to-banish-the-recycling-symbol-from-most-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481593\/","title":{"rendered":"California is poised to banish the recycling symbol from most plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MPKCGYZJC5BRNM5IFKMHJM2FD4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"R7ZA5CNZHZEKLND7RY756HDD5Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The \u201cchasing arrows\u201d symbol, created in 1970 by a <a href=\"https:\/\/aspenjournalism.org\/the-recycling-symbols-aspen-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">college student<\/a> inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has been stamped indiscriminately on plastic bottles, clamshell takeout containers, chip bags and more for decades. The majority of the items emblazoned with the mark have been virtually impossible to recycle for most people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol. The \u201cchasing arrows\u201d symbol,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,440,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-481593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116564027500558284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}