Ag and Environment

They call it “single-stream” recycling, but it looks and sounds more like a raging river of refuse, with its own rapids and falls.

Every month, Greater Des Moines sends 2,700 tons of thrown-away paper, cans …

A dry cleaner with long-standing ties to Drake University will relocate this fall as the school plans to convert the site of its current location into green space.

Dixie Byers, the owner of Campus Cleaners, …

Ciji Mitrisin never wanted to own a business, but she has always wanted to make a difference and was sick of waiting for someone else to do it.

A self-described “eco-nut,” Mitrisin has turned her …

When you’re an Iowa-based environmental products company that has transformed millions of scrap tires into safe tile surfaces for playgrounds that have been proved to significantly reduce children’s injuries while cleaning up the environment, what …