Dive Summary:

• The city manager of Marion, Iowa is looking to Maryland-based waste-to-energy company Fiberight to fuel its city-owned vehicles with converted trash.
• Fiberight is opening a facility around the Cedar Rapids area and the city stated that when the plant opens, waste will go there for processing so it can be turned into fuel.
• The Linn County Landfill is not pleased with the plan, as it is the county's current landfill and will lose revenue.

From the article:

[Marion’s city manager Lon] Pluckhahn says, “They’re a company that takes organic materials and cellulosic materials, which is things like paper waste, out of the waste stream and they can use it to manufacture ethanol.” 

Marion’s current curbside recycling program recovers only about 33-percent of what could be diverted from Linn County’s landfill, but he says that will quickly change.