Backers of Iowa’s 47-year-old “Bottle Bill” are urging Iowans to contact lawmakers about a lack of access to sites where they can redeem their nickel deposits on bottles and cans. R-G Schwarm is executive director of Cleaner Iowa, a group that paid to survey Iowans about the Bottle Bill. “Iowans continue to support the Bottle Bill,” Schwarm said, “but the frustration is clearly recognized in the results.”
The Bottle Bill was changed in 2022, removing the requirement that retailers who sell beverages and collect the nickel deposits must pay consumers who return the empties. A bill to expand the fee failed in a house committee on Tuesday.
