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Iowa City's Used Diapers May One Day Fuel Your Car: Iowa City Daily News Links, Aug. 21
A quick rundown of local news.
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The University of Iowa students are definitely back. Check out this of them heading to class.
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I have a preview of the new frozen yogurt spot in town, , which opened last week.
The University of Iowa has again claimed a glorified spot .
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The three men who were allegedly involved with a lethal confrontation with undercover drug enforcement agents outside Iowa City last week .
The Daily Iowan Reader is back. In today's edition, they talk about the University poo pooing the , plus the Iowa City City Council may end its Youth Advisory Commission, Iowa City school district officials say they're confident in safety procedures after a bomb scare, and read the DI's 2012 Hawkeye wide receiver preview.
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Iowa City's landfill waste could one day be turned into ethanol, writes Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette.
Hayley Bruce of the Gazette writes that the bomb threat at Iowa City Regina yesterday turned out to be an empty one.
State Universities are upping their recruiting efforts to try to attract more in-state students reports Diane Heldt of the Gazette.
Iowa City is about to have a Culver's restaurant of its very own writes Mitchell Schmidt of the Iowa City Press-Citizen.
Iowa seniors have saved a total of $8 million due to changes made by Obamacare, federal officials claim. (Des Moines Register)
Gov. Terry Branstad said that if Republicans gain control of the legislature in November there will be likely be an attempt at changes to same-sex marriage and abortion legislation. (Des Moines Register)
Willowwind School in Iowa City posted an all-time enrollment high. (Press-Citizen)
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The landfill takes in about 125,000 tons of trash annually, according to the city’s website. Such a large reduction would be significant and would help extend the life of the landfill, Fosse said.
The city would bear some cost for the processing of the waste, he said. The question is whether the reduction in waste going to the landfill is enough to make that a good deal.
“That’s what we’re working through now, is to make sure that this works from a financial perspective for us, as well,” he said.
Fiberight CEO Craig Stuart-Paul said ethanol can be made out of food waste, contaminated material that cannot be recycled and even used diapers.
“Yep, we can recover used diapers into biofuel,” he said.
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