The Iowa Legislature has approved and sent to the governor major changes to the state’s 44-year-old “bottle bill” program meant to encourage recycling of beverage containers.
Tell your legislators that you want to keep the bottle deposit law working for all Iowans by increasing the redemption fee to 2 cents, by expanding the law to include juice and water containers, and keeping empty container redemption in the grocery stores and convenience stores. The distance to redemption centers should remain at 10-minutes, so that all Iowans have a
A rapidly heating planet, rising sea levels, oceans choked with plastic pollution, landfills overflowing with solid wastes, an increasingly decrepit drinking water infrastructure, and industrial chemical hazards menacing drinking water – these threats and others are the backdrop for lawmakers’ review of Governor Hochul’s proposed environmental budget this week.