Milk, juice, broth and wine containers made of carton can now wear the recycling insignia in California Critics say the state’s tough laws on waste and plastic should have prohibited that Lodi — A ...

California milk cartons may lose their coveted recycling symbol, the one with the chasing arrows, potentially threatening the existence of the ubiquitous beverage containers. In a letter Dec. 15, ...

Beverage cartons have already been on the market for over 100 years. The milk carton, originally entirely made of paperboard and thus 100 percent bio-based, was patented in 1915. A century later, ...