Recycling

Crushing aluminum cans and flattening plastic bottles when recycling can do more harm than good in some cases.

A recycling center in Fairfax Iowa has innovative approach to recycling and it could revolutionize the industry.

For the first time in 40 years, Iowa may have a change with its bottle bill redemption program.

Customers on Thursday waste collection routes in Cedar Rapids will again resume collection from alleys this week.

Back in mid-March, the Cedar Rapids Solid Waste and Recycling Division made the decision to alter some of their collection procedures in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Christmas leaves just as quickly as it arrives. The Linn County Solid Waste Agency has some tips to make clean-up as easy as possible.

If you love Mother Earth, you should get to know this Crown Jewel of Linn County.

I'd like to think that I'm a reasonably intelligent person. I've been lots of places and seen lots of amazing things in my life, but something happened to my girlfriend and me on our first day in Iowa that made us both feel like we had stepped into the future.