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
Farm belt state struggles in shift to recycling
More than half of what Iowans dump into landfills could have been recycled or composted. In some areas, that amount is as
Four of every five households in Iowa City, a city with an aggressive recycling program, do not have access to curbside recycling.
The availability of residential recycling gets even smaller
