"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" Button
Object Details
- Description
- To combat the proliferation of consumer waste, environmentalists encouraged everyone to embrace the “3 R’s”: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. This button entwined that message with the universal recycling symbol, a logo created in 1970 by University of Southern California senior Gary Anderson.
- The button is among the more than 1,500 pin-backed environmental buttons that Gerald H. Meral donated to the National Museum of American History. Meral spent his career addressing natural resource concerns for the California state government and California-based non-governmental organizations. He began assembling his button collection in 1970.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2003.0014.0286
- accession number
- 2003.0014
- catalog number
- 2003.0014.0286
- Object Name
- button
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .33 cm x 3.5 cm; 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Health & Medicine
- American Enterprise
- Environmental Buttons
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Environmental Movement
- Record ID
- nmah_1284430
