The recycling containers at Iowa City’s South Riverside Recycling Center have moved further south, and can now be found at the Sturgis Ferry Park Recycling Center. The new location at 1700 S Riverside Dr is about a half-mile south of the previous center. “Materials accepted will remain the same: flattened cardboard, mixed paper and cartons, […]
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Cedar Rapids and North Liberty restricting on-street parking during winter storm; Iowa City cancels compost collection
Ahead of the major winter storm expected to bring heavy snow and brutally cold temperature to Iowa this week, Cedar Rapids has declared a snow emergency starting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. During the emergency, which is scheduled to last until noon on Saturday, on-street parking on the city’s posted snow emergency routes is prohibited. […]
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Iowa City adds more glass recycling drop-off locations
Iowa City has added three new glass recycling drop-off locations, including one not actually in Iowa City. The new glass recycling containers can be found in parking lots of Upper City Park and the Robert A. Lee Recreation Center, as well as the Coralville Drop-Off Recycling Center at 950 Hughes St. Just like the recently […]
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Trash that Styrofoam, and other tips to fight ‘wishful recycling’ will be covered in online discussion Monday
As with so many other aspects of life, good intentions aren’t enough when it comes to recycling, and good habits can stop being good when circumstances change. Consider the case of plastic clamshell containers, the kind used for take-out food. Iowa City recycling bins used to welcome the containers. But that stopped in December 2020, […]
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Rockin’ around the Christmas trash: A guide to recycling your holiday waste
Perhaps the worst part of Christmas is the inevitable clean-up afterwards: the mountain of empty boxes, shredded wrapping paper, string lights with burnt-out bulbs and the tree slowly going from beloved holiday symbol to fire hazard. But before you toss it all into the dumpster or stuff it into a garbage can, consider these ways […]
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No Rummage in the Ramp this summer, but pop-up sites will offer an alternative for donating and recycling items
Rummage in the Ramp had been a staple of Iowa City summers for more than a decade, providing people moving mid-summer, and others with unwanted items at home, a way of getting rid of furniture and other household goods without sending them to the landfill. But COVID-19 canceled last year’s rummage, and concerns over the […]
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Curbside collection of compostable waste canceled in Iowa City on Thursday due to anticipated winter storm
Iowa City is canceling curbside pick-up of compostable waste on Thursday due to the anticipated winter storm. Normal service for customers affected by the cancellation will resume on Thursday next week. Garbage and recycling collection will proceed on their normal schedule. “Please place carts in your driveway or on a cleared, flat spot,” the department […]
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Iowa City is composting Christmas trees and curbside recyclers get the tree collected for free
As the holidays, like the rest of 2020, fade into the past, Iowa City residents with curbside recycling have an easy way to dispose of holiday evergreens going brown. Like other organic waste, formerly festive trees can be put at the curb and will be collected on the regular collection day. The trees will be […]
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No more plastic clamshells, and other changes to Iowa City’s recycling program
Iowa City’s recycling program can no longer digest all those plastic clamshell containers that so many takeout meals come in, the city’s Department of Resource Management announced on Thursday. “The pandemic has caused a significant increase in the use of clamshells by consumers, which negatively impacts the quality of materials processed by plastic recycling companies,” […]
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Rummage in the Ramp returns for 13th year
There are many things that define Iowa City in the summer: festivals, street sales, slow-moving quiet afternoons. One of the least glamorous of these seasonal trends is the surge of movers in and out of dorms and apartments as the fall semester approaches. Unwanted items make their way out of living rooms and into dumpsters, or onto the curb to be claimed.
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Your Village: What happens to materials recycled in Iowa City?
“Where does the recycling go?” asks Roger. The short answer for Iowa City curbside recyclers is Davenport, and then into the wider world.
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Iowa City curbside recyclers can compost their Christmas trees for free
On the ninth day of Christmas, otherwise known as Wednesday, the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center announced the schedule for curbside Christmas tree collection. Starting on Monday, Jan. 7, curbside recycling customers can put their slowly browning evergreens out with other organic waste on the regular collection day. The trees will be composted, and […]
