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Jay Baker, director of Kandiyohi County's recycling program, shows samples of the new type of plastic containers that will be accepted at the recycling center, starting April 1. (Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange)

Plastic recycling expanding

The whipped topping containers, ice cream pails and yogurt, cottage cheese and margarine tubs that have been crowding kitchen cupboards -- and the Kandiyohi County landfill -- will now be...

news / extra / local Sat, Mar 27, 2010 - 1:48pm

Dubuque neighbors pay back pranksters by planting 3,000 plastic forks in their yard

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - When known pranksters Rick and Marilyn Jones left town for a wedding, neighbors seeking payback eyed their property and decided to stick a fork in it...

Thu, Apr 17, 2008 - 3:00am