User talk:CatSwan

The reason for opening this editing account is because I wish to challenge the article found in Wikipedia, written about the sources of the original recycling symbol. The article, stated as reprinted from "Resource Recycling," written by Penny Jones and Jerry Powell, called "Gary Anderson has been found!" is outright false. There may be a few truths, or none at all. It is definitely full of lies, falsehoods, untruths.

I was part of the creation of the original recycling symbol in the U.S.A. The European recycling symbol is more like a yin-yang cycle. The American recycling symbol was created in Sacramento, California, in 1984/1985. The very first one had three arrows forming a triangle, with the arrow tips ending at the corners. I can explain how it evolved to having the arrows flipped and ending mid-way between the corners.

The symbol of 3 arrows folded did not exist in 1970, as the article claims. There are so many false statements in the article that I would not be surprised if the person, Gary Anderson, is completely fictional. Perhaps Penny Jones is also a fictional person.

The photographs of the modern recycling symbol were created recently, within the last ten years (11/26/2009). If anyone has a good critical eye and some knowledge of the material, it should be obvious to see that this article about the history of the recycling symbol is fake.

I am willing to expand on this if necessary. Thank you for your attention to details and plausibility. ```` CatSwan (talk) 02:29, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

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June 2015
Hello, I'm Reify-tech. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Recycling symbol, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Reify-tech (talk) 20:57, 26 June 2015 (UTC)