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  • How the Recycling Symbol Became Meaningless

    How the Recycling Symbol Became Meaningless

    Kate Yoder

    It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special, letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. The…