Dive summary:
- A recycling plant worker was sent straight to the Emergency Room after coming across a bag full of hundreds of needles while she was sorting through recyclables.
- A similar situation happened to the worker about ten years ago; both times, she was lucky enough not to have contracted any blood-borne diseases.
- One the woman's coworkers claims they get many different kinds of inappropriate material at the facility such as deer carcasses and fish guts.
Valley News Live - KVLY/KXJB - Fargo/Grand Forks
From the article:
Workers sort through 15 tons or 30,000 pounds of recyclables each day. If they are going through things like newspapers, they try and get rid of contaminates like plastic bottles. And the last thing that they have on their mind of coming across is hazardous materials, like a bag full of needles.
"So as the material come across the line a lot of things come in plastic bags, and we open everything up to find out what's in there because a lot of times things are mixed. And she opened up a bag that was like any other one and it was full of needles." Zach explains. ...
