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Since 1979, Iowa’s bottle deposit law has been good for our state. It keeps bottles and cans out of our rivers, parks, ditches and landfills. Now is the time to expand this successful law not gut it.
There have been many attempts to change the law and most recently those attempts have been bad news for Iowa’s Bottle Redemption Program. It is most important to make recycling accessible for Iowans. If returning cans and bottles becomes a burden, our 5-cent deposit becomes a tax.
Currently the Legislature is debating House File 814. This legislation would allow grocery stores, gas stations and other retail outlets to opt out of taking back cans and bottles if they have a contract with a redemption center within 10 to 15 miles, depending on the population. That would be a round trip of 20 to 30 miles, which is difficult for some consumers. Taking bottles and cans back to the grocery store we regularly visit is the most convenient way to participate in the bottle redemption p
Dec 13, 2020
Des Moines (AP) The elderly woman stopped almost weekly at the Pella Can and Bottle Redemption Center. But until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, owner Sheri Cunningham never knew why.
Then one day last spring the woman approached with tears in her eyes, thanking Cunningham for remaining open.
“She said she’s retired, and her husband had passed away,” Cunningham recalled. “She said she uses the money she gets, about $20 each time, to help buy food. She has heart problems, so the majority of her retirement money goes to medical bills.”
As Cunningham was talking to the woman, another customer listening in joined the conversation. He said the nickels he gets for each can and bottle he brings in help pay for his insulin.