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Iowa City Struggles with Recycling at Apartments, Condos
Four of every five households in Iowa City, a city with an aggressive recycling program, do not have access to curbside recycling. The Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center, which serves Johnson...
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State’s Largest Landfill A Huge Expanse in Central Iowa
Reo Menning is giving a reporter a tour of Metro Park East Landfill, Iowa’s largest landfill and looking over the expanse when she brings up the fact the they are standing on 30 feet of compacted...
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Closing the Gap: Iowa’s Effort to Recycle is Hampered by a System That Favors...
Colors denote intensity of tonnage in fiscal year 2012. Red denotes unavailable data. Interactive Map by Emily Hoerner Farm belt state struggles in shift to recycling More than half of what Iowans...
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New Way of Thinking About Landfill Waste Reduction Emerging in Iowa
A promising new program may be the key to pushing Iowa’s landfills into action that decreases the environmental impact of their operations. The program, called Environmental Management System, or EMS,...
View ArticlePodcast of IowaWatch Appearance on Bob Bruce’s Feb. 21 WMT Radio Show
WMT radio show host Bob Bruce interviewed IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller about a variety of things, including the landfills story by Sarah Hadley and Sujin Kim, on Feb. 21. Listen to...
View ArticleNews Quiz: Managing Iowa’s Landfills
We usually encounter garbage and trash daily, but you might not think about the impact of throwing unwanted items into garbage bins. Iowans dumped 2.7 million tons of garbage into landfills last year....
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Iowans Throwing Away Valuable Food, Usable Materials and Recyclables At...
Iowa’s Department of Natural Resources sampled trash from 10 landfills and five transfer stations across Iowa for a study published in December 2017, looking to answer the question, “What are Iowans...
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Local Town Dumps A Thing Of The Past Due To High Cost Of Government Regulations
SUPPORT NON-PROFIT JOURNALISM AT IOWAWATCH “See that brown building, to the left of the tree line? That’s the University of Dubuque. And a little further left, you can kind of see that little ridge,...
View ArticleFields of Waste: Artificial turf, touted as recycling fix for millions of...
Nearly three decades ago, the federal government issued a somber warning. America’s scrap tires had to go somewhere without gobbling up landfill space. Billions of cast-off tires already had...
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University of Iowa meets climate change goals — didn’t kick its garbage habit
The University of Iowa met most sustainability goals it set a decade ago, but failed in a key area — garbage going to landfills. The University of Iowa released a report this spring on its progress...
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