Dive summary:

• Three young boys in Iowa, aged 11, 12 and 13, went to the Des Moines court house and showed legislators the dangers of sending organic waste in landfills.
• The boys came up with the idea after a science project lead to them digging through the trash of two local restaurants and discovering that 75% of their waste could be composted.
• Legislators will now discuss and make changes to a bill that would have the Department of Natural Resources complete an annual report on the levels of waste going into landfills and as search for a solution.

From the article:

"We wrote a speech and then reviewed our speech multiple times, and then we presented our speech to the subcommittee,” Ethan Trepka, 12, said.

The group of students faced law makers, and they said they weren’t even very nervous. ...