The amount of ag plastic is truly staggering, Dave Dickey writes in his latest column. A Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report says that in 2019 worldwide usage totaled just under 50 million tons.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
