Small town effort spawns plastic recycling glut in Iowa
Iowa towns push plastic jug recycling through drop boxes and coops with Fareway and DNR. Center collects, bales, and ships to Hammer's Plastic. prices fall to around 7 cents a pound, prompting concerns and calls for state demand and compensation for small recyclers. Local firms like Bickford fear leaving the market without support.
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Iowa
Martello
Washington County Developmental Center
Michael Andrew
Andrew
Fareway Food Stores
Department of Natural Resources
Fareway
Developmental Center
Fare
Bickford
RoseBar Tire Shredding Center Aims to Open In North Dakota
Eleanor Kaiser and Barbara Merchant secured a 365550 grant from the Department of Natural Resources to build a tire recycling plant in Vinton. The facility will shred tires into chips used with coal or wood as fuel, reducing landfill waste and creating about 30 jobs in year two.
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Teresa Hay
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Hammer
Iowa Falls
NCS Plastics
Cedar Rapids
Hay
Floyd Hammer
Iowa
Hardin
Cherokee
Lisbon
Mount Vernon
Dave Goschinton
RoseBar Tire
Vinton
RoseBar
Barbara Merchant
Eleanor Kaiser
Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Kaiser
Merchant
Garrison
West Liberty restaurateur Curry overcomes odds and tragedy
Glenn Curry, now 60, Illinois born restaurateur and former Iowa Restaurant Association director, owns Yesterday's in West Liberty. He survived the Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958, helped rescue victims, then pursued youth work and later built a Chicago pizza venture praised as best in the city. He met Kennedy officials, transported Berlin exchange students, and later invested in a restaurant business after rejecting early buyout offers.
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Dave Gosch
West Liberty
Glenn Curry
Curry
Iowa Restaurant Association
Interstate 80
Chicago Red Cross
Our Lady of the Angels Catholic School
John Kennedy
Washington, D.C
State Department
Berlin Wall
Berlin
White House
Kennedy
August Busch
Neil Armstrong
Chicago
Carol Stream
Chicago Tribune
Yesterday's
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