Foreground: a white plastic trash bag filled with cans and bottles. Through the plastic can be seen Great Value and Kirkland water bottle labels, among other bottles. Background: seated attendees at a legislative forum listen as a question is asked of the legislators.

My bag of cans and bottles collected right before this state legislative forum to show our bottle bill needs a boost. Probably 80% water bottles, not covered by our bottle bill. I can pick up the same bag in the same place a couple of times a month. Every month.

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Mixed cans and bottles swirl in a round tub in the early stages of sorting at the Can Shed's Iowa City location.

A large bin is filled to the brim with crushed aluminum cans, soon to be recycled, after being processed at the Can Shed's Iowa City facility.

Behind the scenes at the Can Shed's new Iowa City location, featuring a fabulously complex arrangement of sorting and processing machinery.

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50 single-use beverage containers in 30 seconds, all picked up on a single morning walk.

We can do better.

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Two aluminum cans side by side on the pavement. On the left is a Diet Coke, on the right Liquid Death Mountain Water.

An overhead view of the top of a Liquid Death water can, showing text embossed on the lid: ME NY HI 5¢ on one side of the tab and CTRV CA CRV OR 10¢

An overhead view of the top of a Diet Coke can, showing text embossed on the lid: ME VT MA NY HI IA 5¢ on one side of the tab and CTRV CA CRV OR MI 10¢

Two cans, both alike in dignity,
In fair Iowa, where we lay our scene...

Both aluminum. Both single-use beverage cans. But one has a deposit in IA, the other doesn't. How does that make sense? Let's fix our bottle bill to include water bottles and cans.

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