First, read up on recycling tips from our environmental experts.

From helping you decode eco-friendly claims to sharing the winners of our Sustainable Packaging Awards and our Sustainable Innovation Awards, we're here to help you make smarter decisions for your home and the environment. Here at the Good Housekeeping Institute, our team is passionate about sustainability and the environment. FYI: Just because a product has the chasing arrows symbol, doesn't mean it's recyclable - it's just an indicator of the type of plastic. While the universal plastic resin symbol (three chasing arrows forming a triangle) remains the same, the numbers one through seven inside make a significant difference. With all the different rules and symbols, it can be confusing for consumers to figure out exactly what each plastic recycling symbol means and how to recycle it. Many plastics can be readily recycled, but according to National Geographic, a whopping 91% of plastic has never even been recycled. In fact, one 2016 study found that 32% of plastic packaging ends up in our oceans every year. The versatile material is in our cars, toys, packaging, clothing, home goods, food utensils, and so much more - but it's also littering our streets, clogging our waterways, and choking marine life.

Sometimes it seems like everything in modern America is made of plastic.

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