From: Ian blenkharn@ianblenkharn.com
Category: News & information
Date: 27 Nov 2009
Time: 17:48:12 +0100
Remote Name: 81.154.185.129
SOME of the disturbing items which have been thrown out with residents' recycling in Exeter have been revealed.
Recycling contamination is improving in the city, but waste workers are still finding medical waste and dead animals in recycling boxes at the Materials Reclamation Facility (MRF).
Dealing with contaminated recycling is unpleasant, and in the case of loose hypodermics, could be dangerous for those working in the MRF on Marsh Barton.
Mr Trim said: “In the past three months we have found two dead cats and a dead squirrel at the MRF.
“We are having problems with a large amount of clinical waste — there are 20 to 30 hypodermic needles found every week plus a further 20 lots of medical waste that comes in. In the last month we found three full boxes of sharps.