Even with composting and recycling programs available in many areas of the state, Iowans still tend to toss some of those items into garbage cans, to be discarded in our landfills. A new statewide study shows that food waste – much of which could be composted – took the top spot among items that Iowans […]
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Cindy Hadish/Homegrown Iowan BLAIRSTOWN – Loren Dostal remembers the one that got away. The solid, two-story farmhouse was demolished to make way for a road-widening project in east-central Iowa. “It was a really nice, square house in really nice shape,” said Dostal, of Dostal Construction and Excavating in Toledo, noting that power lines in its […]