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What do All The Recycling Symbols Mean?

Many different labels and symbols appear on packaging to advise people and to promote environmental awareness. The symbols all adhere to the Green Claims Code a Government produced document which sets out the standard information the public can expect to see about the environmental impact of the products they are using.

Symbols are used on thousands of different products and the symbols will fall into several categories.

 

Electronic Recycling Symbols

Glass Recycling Symbols

Metal Recycling Symbols

Paper Recycling Symbols

Plastic Recycling Symbols

With so many different plastics in circulation and virtually no way of identifying them to the untrained eye a plastics identification system has been developed. The PIC (Plastics Identification Code) makes it easy to identify different plastics with the symbol being embossed into most plastic made products.

 

As you can see, there is many different recycling symbols used and this handy guide will hopefully help you understand what are the different recycling symbols that are used.