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That viral recycling symbol article had me photocopying trash for an hour
I saw a post claiming the chasing arrows symbol on plastic means it's always recyclable, and my neighbor's 5 year old daughter argued with me about it, so I drove to the county dump in Akron to check. Turns out the article used a stock photo of a recycling bin with no actual source, and the real rule from our local waste office is that the number inside matters, not the arrows. I spent 45 minutes sorting bottles by their resin codes because of that junk piece, and the office lady just laughed when I showed her the article. Has anyone else gotten stuck chasing a fake fact from a site that clearly never called their own town's facility?
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kellygrant1mo ago
The article was probably fine and you just got caught up in an edge case, honestly (well, not honestly, but you know what I mean). The chasing arrows have always been a shorthand for recycling, and everyone with a brain knows the number matters, so treating that as some big gotcha is silly. You drove to the dump over a five year old's argument, which says more about your stubborn streak than any journalism out there. The county lady laughed because you made a simple thing into a whole field trip, not because the article was trash. Next time, just check the bottom of a bottle for 10 seconds instead of photocopying stuff like a conspiracy theorist. The real fake fact here is thinking any internet piece owes you a personal phone call to Akron.
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