Members of an Iowa Department of Natural Resources study team sorted through garbage taken to landfills by the state’s largest cities, and found tons of material that’s being thrown out that could be recycled. The D-N-R’s Tom Anderson oversaw the 2017 study conducted in October, and says one thing stood out compared to the last study.
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Anderson says it’s obvious efforts to keep cardboard out of landfills has paid off.
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The amount of cardboard dropped by 50 percent since the last study.
The study looked at the recycling market prices at the time of the study and found the value of the common recyclable paper and containers that are sent to the landfill instead of being recycled is more than 60 million dollars.