mss
@ratibida.bsky.social
Appreciator of bugs and birds. Fan of trails and green infrastructure. Current obsession: detrashing and restoring Iowa's Bottle Bill.
"We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters."
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters."
Amazing program, and what a beautiful tribute to the soul who began it.
A decade later, Iowa Master Naturalists program continues to thrive on one woman’s vision
Iowa Master Naturalists program continues to thrive on one woman's vision
Maya Ogren's lasting impact on environmental education continues to grow, nearly a decade after she poured her life's final energy into launching the Iowa Master Naturalists program.
www.thegazette.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Amazing program, and what a beautiful tribute to the soul who began it.
Just saw an article about Yuengling beer expanding distribution into Iowa in 2026. Some enterprising litterer beat them to it earlier this year.
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Just saw an article about Yuengling beer expanding distribution into Iowa in 2026. Some enterprising litterer beat them to it earlier this year.
Barq's! This is the very first can of yours I've picked up. Congrats, I guess.
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Barq's! This is the very first can of yours I've picked up. Congrats, I guess.
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
Hey Ice Mountain! Thanks for the Litter of the Day. Will you support a national bottle bill that includes water bottles, to help keep your garbage from littering our roadways natural spaces?
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Hey Ice Mountain! Thanks for the Litter of the Day. Will you support a national bottle bill that includes water bottles, to help keep your garbage from littering our roadways natural spaces?
Doritos--you're the second most-littered snack bag I've picked up. What are you doing to make sure your trash doesn't end up littering our roadways and waterways?
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Doritos--you're the second most-littered snack bag I've picked up. What are you doing to make sure your trash doesn't end up littering our roadways and waterways?
Can you walk a mile without encountering a littered water bottle? I haven't managed yet.
The plastics/fossil fuel industry pollute our world in so many ways. What are they doing to help clean it up?
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
The plastics/fossil fuel industry pollute our world in so many ways. What are they doing to help clean it up?
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Can you walk a mile without encountering a littered water bottle? I haven't managed yet.
The plastics/fossil fuel industry pollute our world in so many ways. What are they doing to help clean it up?
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
The plastics/fossil fuel industry pollute our world in so many ways. What are they doing to help clean it up?
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
Hey Maverik. Welcome to Iowa. Thanks for the Litter of the Day.
Always nice when you toss your garbage on our roadways, and even better when it's made of material that crumbles into thousands of tiny pieces if we don't pick up after you quickly enough.
Always nice when you toss your garbage on our roadways, and even better when it's made of material that crumbles into thousands of tiny pieces if we don't pick up after you quickly enough.
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hey Maverik. Welcome to Iowa. Thanks for the Litter of the Day.
Always nice when you toss your garbage on our roadways, and even better when it's made of material that crumbles into thousands of tiny pieces if we don't pick up after you quickly enough.
Always nice when you toss your garbage on our roadways, and even better when it's made of material that crumbles into thousands of tiny pieces if we don't pick up after you quickly enough.
I wonder what future archaeologists are going to think as they unearth billions of these from the sediment.
If only there were a way to prevent it....
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
If only there were a way to prevent it....
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I wonder what future archaeologists are going to think as they unearth billions of these from the sediment.
If only there were a way to prevent it....
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
If only there were a way to prevent it....
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
On this, America Recycles Day, it's time to admit that America does not, in fact, recycle nearly as much as it pretends it does.
When our friends around the world recover and recycle almost twice as many cans as we do, we are failing.
But there's an easy fix.
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
When our friends around the world recover and recycle almost twice as many cans as we do, we are failing.
But there's an easy fix.
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
On this, America Recycles Day, it's time to admit that America does not, in fact, recycle nearly as much as it pretends it does.
When our friends around the world recover and recycle almost twice as many cans as we do, we are failing.
But there's an easy fix.
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
When our friends around the world recover and recycle almost twice as many cans as we do, we are failing.
But there's an easy fix.
#bottlebill #nationalbottlebill
U.S. lags behind the rest of the world, as seems to be standard lately. A national bottle bill would go a long way towards getting our recycling rates to a reasonable level.
Aluminum beverage can recycling rate hit 75% globally: report
The update at COP30 comes two years after the industry pledged to recycle at least 80% of these containers worldwide by 2030 and nearly all by 2050. The picture is weaker in the U.S. and North America...
www.wastedive.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
U.S. lags behind the rest of the world, as seems to be standard lately. A national bottle bill would go a long way towards getting our recycling rates to a reasonable level.
The IC Litter Crew gets a lot of thanks. It's great for businesses when volunteers clean up their garbage. It's great for cities, too. But it's not so great for the regular people who spend their time picking up industry's trash. We need better laws to make business responsible for its own garbage.
“From 'litterbugs' to 'recycling heroes,' the same asymmetric pattern endures. Citizens do the work, municipalities pay for it, and corporations keep the profits. To fix the system, we must first rewrite that story.”
theconversation.com/how-the-plas...
theconversation.com/how-the-plas...
How the plastics industry shifted responsibility for recycling onto you, the consumer
Only 9% of plastics ever made have been recycled. Clever industry campaigns have shifted the costs of their own waste onto consumers.
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The IC Litter Crew gets a lot of thanks. It's great for businesses when volunteers clean up their garbage. It's great for cities, too. But it's not so great for the regular people who spend their time picking up industry's trash. We need better laws to make business responsible for its own garbage.
100% it's time to fix our bottle bill and make sure the industry is responsible for all the trash and litter it brings into our neighborhoods.
Some Iowa groups and consumers say it's time to redeem Gov. Robert Ray's favorite piece of legislation: the 1979 "bottle bill," which was drained of its potency in 2022 with the passage of SF 2378.
Many stores stopped redeeming empties after Republicans gutted Iowa's 'bottle bill.' Three years later, the Sierra Club is calling for a review. - 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 […]
littlevillagemag.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
100% it's time to fix our bottle bill and make sure the industry is responsible for all the trash and litter it brings into our neighborhoods.
Bottle bills work. And they are necessary to make sure the industry's trash goes where it should.
But a lot has changed in the 50 years since Iowa's was first enacted. We need to increase the deposit to $.10 and expand to include water bottles and others.
But a lot has changed in the 50 years since Iowa's was first enacted. We need to increase the deposit to $.10 and expand to include water bottles and others.
Sierra Club calls for legislative review of the 2022 changes to bottle bill • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Sierra Club Iowa Chapter called on a legislative committee to review of the impacts of a 2022 law on the can and bottle redemption program.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bottle bills work. And they are necessary to make sure the industry's trash goes where it should.
But a lot has changed in the 50 years since Iowa's was first enacted. We need to increase the deposit to $.10 and expand to include water bottles and others.
But a lot has changed in the 50 years since Iowa's was first enacted. We need to increase the deposit to $.10 and expand to include water bottles and others.
I bet it really sucks when someone just up and shoots you while you're going about your daily business.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I bet it really sucks when someone just up and shoots you while you're going about your daily business.
An entire article about the MI bottle bill and the word "litter" doesn't appear once. Bottle bills are fundamentally litter-prevention programs. Curbside recycling is great, but does nothing to prevent these items from being littered.
"The dime deposit in 1976, when Michigan adopted the Bottle Bill, would be equivalent to only two cents today." A great deep dive into Michigan's bottle bill, featuring a new @umich.edu report, in @freep.com.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Michigan's 10-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program is on the decline. Here's why.
Bottle and can redemptions above a dime? More redemption-eligible containers? Those are among the ideas floated to bolster Michigan's declining program.
www.freep.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
An entire article about the MI bottle bill and the word "litter" doesn't appear once. Bottle bills are fundamentally litter-prevention programs. Curbside recycling is great, but does nothing to prevent these items from being littered.
The tiniest flower, just getting started as the world withers around it.
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The tiniest flower, just getting started as the world withers around it.
Our natural world is all but invisible in public discourse. With the daily firehouse of manufactured crises meant to capture our attention, it's refreshing (?) to see someone actually speaking with care about the world we all need to inhabit and the world we're leaving for those who come after us.
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Our natural world is all but invisible in public discourse. With the daily firehouse of manufactured crises meant to capture our attention, it's refreshing (?) to see someone actually speaking with care about the world we all need to inhabit and the world we're leaving for those who come after us.
Fast food cups find their way into our environment far more often than they should. Other single-use beverage containers, like cans and bottles, can be captured via bottle bill redemption programs, but no such thing exists for these cups, nor for their lids and straws.
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Fast food cups find their way into our environment far more often than they should. Other single-use beverage containers, like cans and bottles, can be captured via bottle bill redemption programs, but no such thing exists for these cups, nor for their lids and straws.
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Iowa is a complete joke when it comes to water pollution
Attorneys for the polluter conspire with Iowa AG and DNR to keep settlement on the down low
Wrist slap fine of $50k for years of violations, they don’t even need to stop polluting until end of 2026 (1)
www.thegazette.com/crime-courts...
Attorneys for the polluter conspire with Iowa AG and DNR to keep settlement on the down low
Wrist slap fine of $50k for years of violations, they don’t even need to stop polluting until end of 2026 (1)
www.thegazette.com/crime-courts...
Iowa officials quietly fast-tracked settlement with major meatpacker, environmental group alleges
A new legal challenge in Iowa argues that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and a meatpacking company coordinated behind the scenes to keep details of a "
www.thegazette.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Iowa is a complete joke when it comes to water pollution
Attorneys for the polluter conspire with Iowa AG and DNR to keep settlement on the down low
Wrist slap fine of $50k for years of violations, they don’t even need to stop polluting until end of 2026 (1)
www.thegazette.com/crime-courts...
Attorneys for the polluter conspire with Iowa AG and DNR to keep settlement on the down low
Wrist slap fine of $50k for years of violations, they don’t even need to stop polluting until end of 2026 (1)
www.thegazette.com/crime-courts...
Plastic cans, plastic food packaging, aluminum cans, fast-food cups/lids/straws...businesses all happily and obliviously dumping their garbage around our neighborhoods.
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Plastic cans, plastic food packaging, aluminum cans, fast-food cups/lids/straws...businesses all happily and obliviously dumping their garbage around our neighborhoods.
"Taste the rainbow...and then just toss that anywhere."
Thanks for the garbage, Skittles/Mars Inc.!
Thanks for the garbage, Skittles/Mars Inc.!
October 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"Taste the rainbow...and then just toss that anywhere."
Thanks for the garbage, Skittles/Mars Inc.!
Thanks for the garbage, Skittles/Mars Inc.!
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California is expected to receive more than $1.7 million from four producers of plastic bags that the state’s attorney general said on Friday tried to deceive the public into believing that their bags were recyclable when they were not.
Plastic Bag Makers to Pay California $1.7 Million for False Recycling Claims
The state also announced it was suing three other companies that it said illegally marketed their plastic bags as being recyclable when they were not.
nyti.ms
October 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
California is expected to receive more than $1.7 million from four producers of plastic bags that the state’s attorney general said on Friday tried to deceive the public into believing that their bags were recyclable when they were not.
"microplastics, which enter the body primarily through inhalation or ingestion after plastic litter in the environment degrades into smaller plastic fragments"
Gosh, if only lawmakers could do something to address real problems instead of manufacturing new windmills to tilt at.
Gosh, if only lawmakers could do something to address real problems instead of manufacturing new windmills to tilt at.
#Microplastics are increasingly detected in human tissues, with potential links to cognitive, cardiovascular, and inflammatory outcomes.
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📌 Learn more in this JAMA Insights: ja.ma/4nJCR3w
October 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"microplastics, which enter the body primarily through inhalation or ingestion after plastic litter in the environment degrades into smaller plastic fragments"
Gosh, if only lawmakers could do something to address real problems instead of manufacturing new windmills to tilt at.
Gosh, if only lawmakers could do something to address real problems instead of manufacturing new windmills to tilt at.
Iowa: where our government is so corrupted that we have to have bake sales to fund water quality monitoring.
(Please give if you can...)
(Please give if you can...)
Donate to Water Monitoring: They Cut Funding - Now We Must Act!, organized by Dale Braun
Imagine living in a state so dependent on its rivers and farmland, ye… Dale Braun needs your support for Water Monitoring: They Cut Funding - Now We Must Act!
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October 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Iowa: where our government is so corrupted that we have to have bake sales to fund water quality monitoring.
(Please give if you can...)
(Please give if you can...)