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RECYCLE Symbol History:

The Story Of The Mobius Loop

The COLOR that most often symbolizes recycling is Green. 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).

It was part of a special event for the original Earth Day in 1970 (started by John Mc Connell who started Earthday), 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

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