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Sierra Club Iowa Chapter is calling on a legislative committee to conduct a review of the impacts that a 2022 law, which allowed some stores to opt out of providing redemption services, has had on the state’s can and bottle redemption program.

Before the enactment of Senate File 2378 , all stores that sold alcoholic or carbonated beverages, and collected the 5-cent deposit, had to accept the empty containers and redeem the deposit.

Sierra Club, in a news release, said the law has made it “harder for Iowans to participate in the program.”

A 2024 Sierra Club survey found 62 percent of respondents reported a redemption center or collection site had closed in their area, and 21 percent of re

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