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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

By Julia Poska / IowaWatch

/ 3 Jul 2020

University of Iowa meets climate change goals -- didn’t kick its garbage habit

Local Town Dumps A Thing Of The Past Due To High Cost Of Government Regulations

“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,

By Lauren Wade/Iowa Watch

/ 17 Dec 2018

Small Iowa landfills began to close when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Iowa Department of Natural Resource

Local Town Dumps A Thing Of The Past Due To High Cost Of Government Regulations

Many small Iowa communities no longer can afford to maintain their local dumps when faced with increasing regulation and permitting fees by the EPA and Iowa Department of Natural Resources. That has forced new ways of thinking about waste management.

By Lauren Wade

/ 5 Dec 2018

Local Town Dumps A Thing Of The Past Due To High Cost Of Government Regulations

Iowans Throwing Away Valuable Food, Usable Materials and Recyclables At Alarming Rate

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 landfilling?” Tom Anderson, of the Iowa DNR’s Land Quality Bureau and the study’s project manager, ha

By Lauren Wade

/ 24 May 2018

Iowans Throwing Away Valuable Food, Usable Materials and Recyclables At Alarming Rate

News Quiz: Managing Iowa's Landfills

Iowans dumped 2.7 million tons of garbage into landfills last year. One method the Iowa Department of Natural Resources promotes to reduce the negative influence of dumping all that garbage has on the environment is called the Environmental Management System, but many Iowa landfill operators are rel

By IowaWatch

/ 22 Jul 2016

Paperwork Load, Time Commitment Keep Iowa Landfills From Adopting Plan Called Environment Friendly

The Environmental Management System, or EMS, was seen as an alternative to relying simply on giving credits to Iowa landfills that serve as incentives for accepting fewer tons of garbage. But adoption of this approach has been slow.

By Haley Hansel

/ 17 Jun 2016

Paperwork Load, Time Commitment Keep Iowa Landfills From Adopting Plan Called Environment Friendly

Bioengineers hope turning garbage into gas opens a green frontier in Iowa, Midwest

The budding advanced biofuel industry stretches from Emmetsburg in the west to Marion in the east in Iowa, and also to several other parts of the country. Although business and political challenges remain, engineers have concocted an expensive cocktail of chemicals called enzymes that are too small

By Gabriella Dunn/IowaWatch and The Gazette

/ 4 Jun 2014

Bioengineers hope turning garbage into gas opens a green frontier in Iowa, Midwest

Closing the Gap: Iowa's Effort to Recycle is Hampered by a System That Favors Dumping

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

By Sarah Hadley and Sujin Kim

/ 3 Feb 2013

Closing the Gap: Iowa's Effort to Recycle is Hampered by a System That Favors Dumping

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

By Sujin Kim

/ 3 Feb 2013

State's Largest Landfill A Huge Expanse in Central Iowa