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The Mississippi River drains more than 40 percent of the continental U.S. – just how much trash does it take along with it?

Apr. 21—When William Dunne picked up the phone to talk with a reporter during the grand opening of his business, B&B Redemption Center in Cascade — he spoke over the

B&B Redemption Center in Cascade is one of a handful of new redemption centers to open in Iowa since the Iowa Legislature last year updated the 45-year-old bottle bill. A major change was increasing the handling fee going to redemption centers from 1 to 3 cents per container. Those extra pennies started flowing in January.

IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH Photo by Perry Beeman/Iowa Capital Dispatch An amended House bill would raise handling fees for can and bottle redemption centers. The Iowa House’s proposal to revamp the state’s 1979-vintage beverage container deposit law earned mixed reviews at a public hearing Tuesday night. Before the session started, Rep. Shannon Lundgren, R-Peosta, filed an amendment to House File 814 that would raise the handling fee paid to redemption centers. That change would align the bill ...

A bill significantly changing Iowa’s 40-plus-year-old bottle and can deposit law is on the move in the Iowa Legislature. And in its current form, lawmakers should toss it into a recycling bin. The bill, Senate File 368, would allow beverage retailers to opt-out of collecting containers and redeeming consumers’ 5-cent deposits if the store is within 20 miles of a redemption center. That’s going to mean a lack of convenience and long drives for many Iowans. On the plus side, the bill does i...

A Senate subcommittee on Thursday advanced a bill that would allow grocery and convenience stores to opt out of accepting empty beverage containers that are now covered by Iowa’s 1978

DES MOINES - A Senate subcommittee on Thursday advanced a bill that would allow grocery and convenience stores to opt out of accepting empty beverage containers that are now covered by Iowas 1978 bottle-deposit law.

A big road construction project is in the early talking stages in Terre Haute.

Radio Iowa You are here: Home Pressure builds for changes to Iowa’s Bottle Bill The battle over Iowa’s so-called “bottle bill” which set the nickel deposit fee on cans and bottles with carbonated and alcoholic beverages in 1979 will again be waged in the 2021 Iowa legislature. House Speaker Pat Grassley, a Republican from New Hartford, told Radio Iowa he hears about it “constantly.” “The question of tackling the Bottle Bill has 100 different opinions on what that looks like,” Gr...

MANCHESTER, Iowa — In less than one month, a redemption center will open again in Manchester. Can Shed, of Cedar Rapids, will open a satellite facility on Jan. 7 in the back of Manchester’s Unlimited Services Inc. “We are planning on opening up a location part time,” said Troy Willard, owner and CEO of Can Shed. “Our business model is a little different. We encourage people to bring things back according to the bulk system. One of the big things people will like there i...