Sierra Club calls for legislative review of the 2022 changes to bottle bill

Sierra Club calls for legislative review of the 2022 changes to bottle bill

Sierra Club Iowa Chapter is calling on a legislative committee to conduct a review of the impacts a 2022 law, which allowed some stores to opt out of providing redemption services, has had on the state’s can and bottle redemption…

Many stores stopped redeeming empties after Republicans gutted Iowa's 'bottle bill.' Three years later, the Sierra Club is calling for a review.

Jordan Sellergren/Little Village It’s been three years since Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill gutting an important recycling law that had been in place for four decades. SF 2378 changed “the bottle bill” that another Republican governor, Robert Ray, signed in 1978, creating a 5 cent deposit on bottles and cans of soda, beer and wine sold in Iowa and requiring retailers selling those beverages to redeem the bottles and cans. Ray frequentl…