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What happens to your trash and recycling, from your curb to the landfill and everywhere in between?
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Food waste takes up space in landfills and produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Composting that waste can reduce climate impacts and save municipalities money on landfill fees, but concerns about bad smells and pests sometimes get in the way.
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What individuals can do to slow the progress of climate change and revamped weekends with IPR
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what happens to your trash and recycling — from curbside to landfill and everything in between
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Iowa lawmakers sent a bill to the governor’s desk Monday that would make major changes to Iowa’s 44-year-old bottle and can deposit program. If the bill is signed into law, grocery and convenience stores could refuse customers’ empty beverage containers.
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Hear about innovations in plastic "upcycling" research and two geologists' work to explain a mystery in northeastern Iowa.
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Hear how the bottle bill changed Iowa and sit down with one of the screenwriters of Brazilian show Sintonia.
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Two key Republican lawmakers said Monday they may consider getting rid of Iowa’s bottle and can deposit program if they can’t agree on how to change it this year.
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The Iowa grocery and beverage industries are gearing up again to try to repeal Iowa’s popular bottle deposit law when lawmakers return to the capitol in…
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Supporters of Iowa’s bottle deposit law say an overwhelming majority of Iowans think the law is good for the state, and regularly return bottles and cans.…