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Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center Looks into Composting
Iowans send about a billion pounds of compostable food waste to landfills each year. The state is looking into ways they can tackle this issue with compost programs.
October 10, 2022
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Iowans send about a billion pounds of compostable food waste to landfills each year; which is about 20% of all waste. Within the state, only two landfill sites offer a wide-scale compost program. One of these sites is the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center. Servicing about 16,500 households, this facility says about one-fourth of its customers utilize compost services. The landfill hopes to gradually increase this amount to help eliminate food waste as an issue contributing to methane emissions.
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