Articles Tagged: Recycling

Can Shed’s new app-based program, BottleDrop Iowa, started June 1 and already has 600 users signed up to drop off recycling when its convenient for them. No more waiting in lines and they get paid electronically.

New recycling bins will be delivered to homes starting mid-May with the program to begin June 3.

A state lawmaker says it may be time to consider repealing the state law that places a 5-cent deposit on most plastic and aluminum beer and soda containers

Are plastic shopping bags really recyclable? While grocers like Hy-Vee and Fareway accept returns of plastic bags in their stores, one Gazette reader wondered whether that’s just an act to make customers feel good. Curious Iowa found out.

Real tree or fake? Incandescent or LED lights? A few simple changes to your annual traditions could help you have more sustainable celebrations.

Using your waste streams, New Village Initiative transforms plastic into a product mixed into asphalt and concrete around the country

In most of the 10 states that have bottle bills, the premiums paid to redemption centers haven’t kept up with costs, causing many private redemption centers to close. Now, legislatures are coming under pressure to help the struggling industry and programs.

On June 23, Central Furniture Rescue in Cedar Rapids is collaborating with the Solid Waste Agency in Marion to hold a furniture drive. The event, taking place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., provides the community with an opportunity to drop off furniture items at the Solid Waste Agency’s main office parking lot.

Every week, garbage trucks perform the ultimate magic trick: making discarded items

Century-old business employs 85; company building new facility in Texas

She also vetoes proposed change to Iowa’s district court judicial nominating commissions, saying the proposal did not go far enough.

In addition to vouchers, K-12 transparency, unemployment benefits, a proposed ethanol mandate, and the bottle bill remain on lawmakers’ to-do list.

In addition to raising the handling fee from one to three cents per container and letting retailers that meet certain condition opt out, SF 2378 increases enforcement through the Attorney General’s Office, offers distributors a 1-cent credit against their taxes for each container they handle and increases legislative oversight. But the Senate must agree.

Iowa Senate Republicans say their plan would breathe new life into the state recycling program, while Senate Democrats say the plan would strangle the program to death.

With just 23 calendar days — which means closer to 18 actual legislative work days, since lawmakers rarely work on Fridays — remaining until lawmakers’ expense reimbursements run out, the push to adjournment begins in earnest next week.