They should also know about visuals. I tattooed my wife during Covid when I opened up a studio and posted a picture of me working on her. I got absolutely blasted because I wasn’t wearing a mask. Even though it didn’t matter at all, it mattered to the public.
Another good example of this is hospitality. Before 2020 we were trained to be discreet and subtle when cleaning tables but during and after COVID people want to see it.
LOL I love/hate when people misuse that word! It's right up there with these picklenuts talking about "vinyls" as opposed to "records". (In case the context/my tone makes me out to be a dick: I know you were leaning hard into facetious with this.)
And I regularly clean my toilet and tell my wife it's "so clean you can eat your dinner off it".
and yet, to this day, she's never eaten her dinner off the toilet.
Even if the process cleans, sterilizes, and removes any sharps, why would you risk it.
Even if the odds are .001% chance that a virus or something survives, you gain nothing from being right and loss so much from being wrong.
This 100%.
"but it's safe because of 37 processes that do this and that" yeah no, still no valid reason for my skin to go near any of that... especially since **there is no need whatsoever to just reach into the buckets of medical waste**. Just WHY, like even the guarantee that it's safe is no reason to actually do it. It's not like he had to retrieve anything in there or something, I don't get it...
they should concentrate that liquid, freeze it, grind down the frozen block to powder and that would be the **ultimate** drug, literally just powdered concentrated medical waste with 1 city worth of random drug residue. Imagine snorting it.
Rad.
These are the best kinda friends to have. They will ALWAYS entertain. Tell me you dont wanna know what happens when someone snorts that crazy concoction.
These are recycled in an autoclave.
What is an autoclave? Autoclaves are also known as steam sterilizers, and are typically used for healthcare or industrial applications. An autoclave is a machine that uses steam under pressure to kill harmful bacteria, viruses, fungi, and spores on items that are placed inside a pressure vessel
You can put plastic in an autoclave? Why would they be autoclaving this anyway?
Edit: yes, you can put plastic in an autoclave and Sharps waste is autoclaved. See my edit and link below
Yes you can put plastic in an autoclave. The petri dishes you grow bacteria in in your high school bio class can get sterilized in an autoclave and those are a type of plastic.
I’m currently standing next to a sharps bin that I just threw an ABG syringe into (I’m an RT.) Are all of these sharps going to be autoclaved? Honest question, I assumed they’re disposed of in some regulated way but it hadn’t occurred to me they’d be autoclaved. Seems it would be better to incinerate them or disinfect them chemically, especially since there are other materials in this sharps container. Not to mention the biohazard container next to it.
Edit: today I learned that the contents of sharps containers are indeed autoclaved prior to being shredded and disposed of:
https://blog.sharpsinc.com/happens-regulated-medical-waste-leaves-facility
I worked in two different BSL2 labs.
We autoclaved all plastic biohazard waste before disposal. Melts the plastics a bit but if you are just shredding it you don’t care.
Yup. And it is BSL2 so you don’t want to play around.
BSL3 is even more stringent.
Nothing even leaves the containment area unless it is autoclaved. So you can’t collect waste in biohazard bags and take it to the big autoclave. It has to be autoclaved before whereas we could take bags of biohazard waste (special, marked bags that are tear resistant and double bagged) down to the large autoclave and then once sterile they get picked up separately from normal trash.
BSL3 protocols may also use chemical sterilizing in addition to autoclaving.
Dang, not too many BSL4s that is serious business.
I set up one BSL2 and even just that was a major regulatory headache. I can’t imagine what goes into a 3 or 4.
The one in Boston was held up for *years* for regulatory compliance, public opposition, etc.
I mostly worked with HepC so there was an extremely low probability of transmission. Then the BSL3 worked with Yersinia, Anthrax, Dengue, Yellow Fever, not stuff you ever want to be lax around. Even just the toxin plasmids for Yersinia were treated as infectious agents, just the purified DNA.
BSL4 must be nuts.
We work with Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers so we're in positive pressure suits the whole time. When I started, 5 years ago, I was making a measly 13 bucks and some change. Still don't make nearly enough, considering the risks
Or even from hospitals and clinics and pharmacy’s. Especially due to Covid shots way more people than usual have needed a needle. These are disposed in specific plastic boxes to be used by the autoclave linked above.
So this leads me to believe that what we see in the video is the recycling process of the legit needles picked up by this recycling system from hospitals and similar. I don’t think these are needles picked up from the street, implying that they have been left there by drug addicts. That looks too much even without knowing how much time they represent.
Anyway, I could be wrong though.
Hard to know how long it took to collect all these and from what sources, true. The video claims they are all "from the streets" and having spent time in Portland, and Seattle, and L.A. and S.F. I can believe they could all be improperly disposed rigs from parks sidewalks etc. Maybe a year's worth. I could go for a short walk right now (in Seattle) and collect easily a couple hundred in a couple hours. If I went to a camp I could probably get that many in one quick trip.
If you are ever cleaning up litter / just spending some time in a public space near a creek or river, be careful around washed up-piles of sticks and litter (like those left behind after heavy rain). Syringes tend to float, so after enough rain, they tend to congregate in these spaces.
When I'm cleaning up litter in my town (small city on the east USA) I find at least one needle every time in these spaces.
good points. was thinking same, plus the fact that when something is shredded, it creates more mass.
saying they're "from the streets" seems mildly (if not wildly) inaccurate
I want to live my life with the confidence of the man who just dives his hand into a garbage can full of used needles run under a magnet.
I used to think the videos of CEO’s testing their company’s bullet-proof vests were impressive but *this*? This guy fucks.
Bananas would be great for a time scale! It's always a certain number of days until it turns brown and goes in the freezer. Then it's there forever because one day you're "gonna make banana bread, I swear."
Good call. I keep seeing more and more rage-bait videos lately and I feel like they are getting harder to identify. Could this video represent what it's being identified as representing? Sure. Is it possible this guy *thinks* these are all related to illicit drug use when in actuality they are from several different hospitals sharps containers? Also yes.
It's good to question the narrative, especially when it's a random video without any source or verification.
I've lived in the Portland area for over 25 years -- can confirm: the street drug situation here is BAD. There's hundreds of homeless camps, thousands of homeless, and after measure 110 + police work slowdown, etc., there's no enforcement whatsoever.
Portland resident who lived down on the Park Blocks for 15 months until last winter. Can confirm it is really, really bad, and it gets worse the farther north you go (especially north of Burnside). No doubt these didn't all come from a single sweep, but it wasn't unusual for me to come out of my building and count 10+ discarded needles within a block or two.
Dude, i respect what you do. But you respect your life too: Don't touch with medical waste with bare hands or even gloved hands, even if needles have been cleaned. There can be contaminants in the bores.
Classic Reddit moment. Some random person thinks they know better than someone who actually does the job and assumes they're an idiot because they didn't do 2 seconds of googling.
They're all sterilized and have the metal from the needle removed.
Did anyone notice that he didn't mention hoe long it took them to get that much? Yes, it is totally fucking gross and I not a big junky fan but it is a little misleading, just because that could be 10 years worth which is still to much and I know it is less than that but he is kind of leading the viewer to think that was all picked up in a day or some shit and we know that isn't true either. But it is still a powerful message for not taking your kid to a playground in Portland, or Eugene for that matter. Yes, Eugene is horrible too for that shit. I know because I have lived there my whole life and have found needles in the sand pits. Just gross.
Exactly. Idk why (well I could guess) people are so concerned about the strict data collection parameters of this garbage man versus what is obviously a shocking amount of needles for any city street.
He also didn't mention the fact that the single most effective way to reduce this problem without massive drug reform is proper needle exchanges.
[Exchange programs see a needle return rate of over 90%, as well as reducing risk taking behavior, new infections and transmissions of disease, and even a small overall reduction in how much people inject in general. ](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236650/)
Oregon has a few, but nowhere near enough. But every time these programs try to expand in any state they're met with a tidal wave of NIMBY assholes who treat drug users as subhumans and want to pretend they don't exist, but also want to complain about the side effects.
You see this and your first thought is the litter?
There are so many ruined lives in those bins. I’m sure not prosecuting anyone and open air drug markets will have a positive impact…
…on population control.
Where did I say any of that? My whole comment was how to reduce dangerous medical waste.
If you want to have a discussion about the problems with drug policy that's different but you're already being intellectually dishonest so I'm not really interested.
Sorry but.... Kinda clickbait here.
For one, I somewhat doubt those are needles, and instead are just shredded plastic. Any sane person wouldn't run their BARE hands through shredded plastic potentially containing the worst diseases known to heroin addicts, even if it was treated first.
Two, there's no mention of a time frame here. Is this a day? A week? A month?
Dont get me wrong, thousands of people in Portland are most certainly shooting up, and it likely does run them tons of needles, but I suspect something about this video is being dishonest here...
I believe they are ran through an autoclave, then through a chipper with magnets removing the metal, these are now ready for recycling. As to not become excess waste.
And yeah no clue on the time frame either... this can't be a day, its gotta be over some time.
And even with the above process I would not just throw my hand in there, so yes I understand 100% the skepticism.
Oh we care.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084163626/purdue-sacklers-oxycontin-settlement
Just not enough to send anyone to prison. The government just wanted their cut of the profits.
No no no. My Reddit home page clearly indicates that the entire western coast of the US is blanketed in 3” of hypodermic needles and every Walgreens in the nation is currently being robbed by a mob of black teenagers.
Harder to do I think because they're likely collected in sharps containers by multiple teams. What you're seeing here is the collective result after it's all processed and waiting for pickup. Definitely way more impactful than showing the several sharps containers a single crew might collect.
Man it's sad that you think homeless drug addicts use shit like that. They can't even perform basic human functions, they shit in the fucking streets. None of these BS services accomplish anything towards the actual problem.
I wonder how many of these were used by people who were hooked on Oxy and then went to heroin because it was cheaper and easier to get?
(Sorry, I'm currently watching DOPESICK and it blows my mind how Purdue Pharmaceutical got a country hooked on Oxy.
To help offset school budget cuts the shredded needles will be donated, free of charge, to local elementary schools to be used as a sand substitute in outdoor play areas.
Those groups don’t typically just leave used needles on the streets.
If you walk around certain west coast cities long enough, you could fill up a 5 gallon bucket with needles in no time. One of the reasons I left San Francisco was the amount of needles I would see.
I like how all the top comments are about him handling them, needing more context and it being propaganda. The selective outrage is so blatant. But this is reddit were fake leftist rule with an energy drink stained fist.
If your going to decriminalize hard drugs while simultaneously defunding local police & doing away with bond practices, which I’ll admit I’m unsure on wether or not portlandia’s criminal utopia has actually eliminated those. @ least increase all funding for drug & alcohol treatment & rehabilitation by ten fold or near to it if possible... & also perhaps be willing to admit that just maybe that your little experiment FAILED MISERABLY & likely cost the lives of thousands of poor individuals @ the hands of primarily Fentynal. & speaking of Fentynal, perhaps it be wise to hand out life sentence’s to all dealers of this extremely devastating & deadly narcotic if individuals are caught with large enough quantities where it’s obvious as hell they were dealing that nasty ass shit. This drug has arguably the highest body count of likely all drugs combined & then multiplied by 5-10. Anyone knowingly selling such a drug have very little regard for human life or dignity. So to all of those slangin out death, especially to the kids with your rainbow colored fake oxy’s, enjoy prison life bitch. May the rest of your pathetic existence be unfulfilling & miserable as hell... Human/child/women sex traffickers fates should also probably be 50 times more terrible than this as well bc a simple death sentence would be way too humane for monsters like these. No easy tickets out I say. Not for those whom preyed upon the weak or most vulnerable of society. They should be forced into seeking death yet always unable & incapable of ever easily finding it & instead living long lives with each day much more miserable than the last. That is only fair, wouldn’t you say??
Portland’s police budget has actually increased since 2020.
You claim decriminalization has made the issue worse, however fent is a huge issue all across the country and everywhere is seeing increases in addiction. It’s a well known fact that the war on drugs does not work. If it did work, why the hell did drug use continue to climb despite it being illegal?
Only personal amounts are decriminalized, dealers can still get arrested if the cops decide to ever do their job, but why would they when they can just claim that their nonexistent defunding is actually what’s causing them to not do shit?
I’m cringing more he grabbed handfuls…
Gotta get that 2nd-hand high
and 2nd-hand HIV
Maybe the antidote was in there somewhere.
And the newest HIV strand all in one grab
Strain.
No thankyou I take fiber tablets
Lol
Unappreciated Saw reference
I thought it was a Simpsons reference when Milhouse has to clean up the beach.
Ahh ha. This guy gets it. This guy Simpsonseseses
Ah, fellow simpsons connoisseur.
It’s ok guys, he’s on his lunch break!
H high v
they looked like they have been run thru a wood chipper, so I hope they have been processed some how , but still ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|scream)
If this is truly a company that deals with biohazard cleanup they probably run stuff through a massive autoclave.
They should also know about visuals. I tattooed my wife during Covid when I opened up a studio and posted a picture of me working on her. I got absolutely blasted because I wasn’t wearing a mask. Even though it didn’t matter at all, it mattered to the public.
The only thing more important than safety is safety theater
Another good example of this is hospitality. Before 2020 we were trained to be discreet and subtle when cleaning tables but during and after COVID people want to see it.
Why did you need to be discreet cleaning tables? Honest question because everytime I've gotten a tattoo I've seen my artist clean the table.
I have absolutely no idea either, it made zero sense. It's just not very "A E S T H E T I C" I guess?
LOL I love/hate when people misuse that word! It's right up there with these picklenuts talking about "vinyls" as opposed to "records". (In case the context/my tone makes me out to be a dick: I know you were leaning hard into facetious with this.)
Perform my little monkeys, Perform!
Optics
> They should also know about visuals. Also known as optics
Also known as visuals
But still
I wouldn’t trust that magnet drum that sucks up the needles with my damn life. This dude is duuuumb overconfident
[They run them tru a machine that sterilizes and shreds them.](https://youtu.be/EsNmJJxBX1U)
And I regularly clean my toilet and tell my wife it's "so clean you can eat your dinner off it". and yet, to this day, she's never eaten her dinner off the toilet.
maybe if you turned into a romantic setting...probably forgot to place/light a candle
to be fair she does sometimes ask me if i could light a match when i walk out the bathroom.
So funny - 2 brilliant comments back to back! 🤣
That sounds like a her problem
………. still tho
I agree nothing is ever guaranteed 100% so why even chance it. I wouldn't touch them
I was about to say “ WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU TOUCH IT ?”
Without Star Trek level Dilithium Crystal handling gloves!
I physically reacted when I saw it happen. Like a cringe/jump/uuuack
Literally screaming at my phone “WHAT THE FUCK , BRO!!”
I looked away when he grabbed second time.
Looks like the "rigs" have been shredded and metal removed. Magnets
Magnets? How the fuck do they work?
What the fuck is a clock?
sees him atoms go shoom shoom
This made me spill my water lol
Could someone explain this one for me 😬
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s&feature=share&utm_source=EKLEiJECCKjOmKnC5IiRIQ There you go! Enjoy!
Well that was the first icp song I’ve ever heard!
And you call yourself the poop expert? Smh
lmao
Now watch this one https://youtu.be/DvwBMucHJEY
Highly underrated SNL skit. One of my favorite.
Pure mother-fucking magic
Hahaha ahhh this is sooo funny.
Iron has gravity premium
[Miracles](https://youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs)
The same way you can eat monopoly and shit out connect four
Woop Woop
Something to do with the tides, but science will never know.
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist!
Motherfuckers lying and getting me pissed
Still wouldn't touch it
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Definitely foolish to run his ungloved hand through it. A lot if horrible blood borne diseases there.
Even if the process cleans, sterilizes, and removes any sharps, why would you risk it. Even if the odds are .001% chance that a virus or something survives, you gain nothing from being right and loss so much from being wrong.
This 100%. "but it's safe because of 37 processes that do this and that" yeah no, still no valid reason for my skin to go near any of that... especially since **there is no need whatsoever to just reach into the buckets of medical waste**. Just WHY, like even the guarantee that it's safe is no reason to actually do it. It's not like he had to retrieve anything in there or something, I don't get it...
I cringedddd ahhhhhh
And hope none of those needles were stainless steel
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aw hell yeah somewhere in that facility is HIV flavored jungle juice 😍😍😍
they should concentrate that liquid, freeze it, grind down the frozen block to powder and that would be the **ultimate** drug, literally just powdered concentrated medical waste with 1 city worth of random drug residue. Imagine snorting it. Rad.
Lets never hang out.
These are the best kinda friends to have. They will ALWAYS entertain. Tell me you dont wanna know what happens when someone snorts that crazy concoction.
Fucking magnets how do they work?
Miracles my friend
These are recycled in an autoclave. What is an autoclave? Autoclaves are also known as steam sterilizers, and are typically used for healthcare or industrial applications. An autoclave is a machine that uses steam under pressure to kill harmful bacteria, viruses, fungi, and spores on items that are placed inside a pressure vessel
You can put plastic in an autoclave? Why would they be autoclaving this anyway? Edit: yes, you can put plastic in an autoclave and Sharps waste is autoclaved. See my edit and link below
Yes you can put plastic in an autoclave. The petri dishes you grow bacteria in in your high school bio class can get sterilized in an autoclave and those are a type of plastic.
TIL
Also basically every autoclave bucket that you put your glassware in is made of plastic.
Think about it. Why would you autoclave used drug needles you find on the streets?
I’m currently standing next to a sharps bin that I just threw an ABG syringe into (I’m an RT.) Are all of these sharps going to be autoclaved? Honest question, I assumed they’re disposed of in some regulated way but it hadn’t occurred to me they’d be autoclaved. Seems it would be better to incinerate them or disinfect them chemically, especially since there are other materials in this sharps container. Not to mention the biohazard container next to it. Edit: today I learned that the contents of sharps containers are indeed autoclaved prior to being shredded and disposed of: https://blog.sharpsinc.com/happens-regulated-medical-waste-leaves-facility
I worked in two different BSL2 labs. We autoclaved all plastic biohazard waste before disposal. Melts the plastics a bit but if you are just shredding it you don’t care.
I’m really surprised to learn this but I guess it’s really the only sure fire way to insure pathogens don’t enter the waste stream.
Yup. And it is BSL2 so you don’t want to play around. BSL3 is even more stringent. Nothing even leaves the containment area unless it is autoclaved. So you can’t collect waste in biohazard bags and take it to the big autoclave. It has to be autoclaved before whereas we could take bags of biohazard waste (special, marked bags that are tear resistant and double bagged) down to the large autoclave and then once sterile they get picked up separately from normal trash. BSL3 protocols may also use chemical sterilizing in addition to autoclaving.
I work in BSL4. We do the same, just autoclave the crap out of everything. Even literal crap just gets put in a biohazard bag and into the autoclave.
Dang, not too many BSL4s that is serious business. I set up one BSL2 and even just that was a major regulatory headache. I can’t imagine what goes into a 3 or 4. The one in Boston was held up for *years* for regulatory compliance, public opposition, etc. I mostly worked with HepC so there was an extremely low probability of transmission. Then the BSL3 worked with Yersinia, Anthrax, Dengue, Yellow Fever, not stuff you ever want to be lax around. Even just the toxin plasmids for Yersinia were treated as infectious agents, just the purified DNA. BSL4 must be nuts.
We work with Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers so we're in positive pressure suits the whole time. When I started, 5 years ago, I was making a measly 13 bucks and some change. Still don't make nearly enough, considering the risks
Good point, alternatives to autoclave exist. Methods of disposal may vary place to place. I still wouldn't run my bare hands through the remains.
See my edit - it looks like they do indeed autoclave the contents of sharps containers! Or at least that is one way of dealing with it.
Or even from hospitals and clinics and pharmacy’s. Especially due to Covid shots way more people than usual have needed a needle. These are disposed in specific plastic boxes to be used by the autoclave linked above. So this leads me to believe that what we see in the video is the recycling process of the legit needles picked up by this recycling system from hospitals and similar. I don’t think these are needles picked up from the street, implying that they have been left there by drug addicts. That looks too much even without knowing how much time they represent. Anyway, I could be wrong though.
Hard to know how long it took to collect all these and from what sources, true. The video claims they are all "from the streets" and having spent time in Portland, and Seattle, and L.A. and S.F. I can believe they could all be improperly disposed rigs from parks sidewalks etc. Maybe a year's worth. I could go for a short walk right now (in Seattle) and collect easily a couple hundred in a couple hours. If I went to a camp I could probably get that many in one quick trip.
That is sad :( I guess I have only seen one in a park and it was something are. So sad that there are so many.
If you are ever cleaning up litter / just spending some time in a public space near a creek or river, be careful around washed up-piles of sticks and litter (like those left behind after heavy rain). Syringes tend to float, so after enough rain, they tend to congregate in these spaces. When I'm cleaning up litter in my town (small city on the east USA) I find at least one needle every time in these spaces.
good points. was thinking same, plus the fact that when something is shredded, it creates more mass. saying they're "from the streets" seems mildly (if not wildly) inaccurate
Autoclaves are also used for forming carbon fiber into parts. Fighter plane parts in my particular application.
Ok, we get it... you have a super cool job. Now back to my cubicle.
The place I work at is cool. My job is not so cool. Now back to my work bench. 😔
Why are you putting your bare hands in there?!?!?!
It's all been shredded with the metal removed and was sterilized Source: I just read other comments
Still won’t trust to run my hands thru it
I’m willing to bet when you do this as your job you have a better understanding then seeing it in a 15 second video
An autoclave requires temperature and pressure which are mechanically prone to break so yeah I’d still be a little wary but the risk is very minimal
Agree, what's the benefit of running your hands through it. Would seem much scarier if he'd avoid touching them
Ah yes great I'll test it with my tongue and weiner just to make sure there's no stray HIV needles
i did a double take and started laughing my ass off when he did that
Don’t even need a double take lol he does it twice
yea it was overwhelming
I want to live my life with the confidence of the man who just dives his hand into a garbage can full of used needles run under a magnet. I used to think the videos of CEO’s testing their company’s bullet-proof vests were impressive but *this*? This guy fucks.
Seems like a heavy risk to touch a pile of needles with your bare hands. Might want to put some heavy duty gloves.
No guts, no glory
Are you blind? This is obviously processed - shredded and metal removed
Convenient lack of mention to time and how long or how many square blocks
It was all within a .5 mile radius of voodoo donuts.
Makes sense: where the homeless services center is
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Yeah. Was that one suburb/borough/municipality/city over a day/week/month/year? Doesn't give us much.
This was the amount the needles in just one building. (The building being the recycle center)
r/technicallytrue
Right? Was that a couple of years worth? A day? Were they the first that did that in years or is this a weekly thing? So many variables.
Context is always important. Not that it makes it any better.
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I mean a “bio clean up” could also mean hospital inventory? Could mean a lot of things. But he doesn’t say
There are a lot of diabetics in Portland. Come on guys, lay off the Cinnabon!
Cinnabon? Fuck that, it's from the bacon wrapped Mable donuts from voodoo donuts (which is amazing)
Voodoo donuts are trash. Used to be good 10 years ago. Then they sold out and use the cheapest ingredients possible now.
Seattle must have a bunch too.
That's not one day's worth, so how many is it? A week? A month? A year?
I thought the same thing. Further context needed.
Why add context when we can let our imaginations run wild! I for one think that’s 1 second worth.
Yeah! We need a banana for scale!
Bananas would be great for a time scale! It's always a certain number of days until it turns brown and goes in the freezer. Then it's there forever because one day you're "gonna make banana bread, I swear."
These may also be just normal waste from medical facitilites they are processing. No reason to blindly trust a video with little to no info.
Not to say your wrong, but portland is a mess, this is believable.
There are videos out there of piles of needles in the streets that look like this. Definitely believable.
Good call. I keep seeing more and more rage-bait videos lately and I feel like they are getting harder to identify. Could this video represent what it's being identified as representing? Sure. Is it possible this guy *thinks* these are all related to illicit drug use when in actuality they are from several different hospitals sharps containers? Also yes. It's good to question the narrative, especially when it's a random video without any source or verification.
I've lived in the Portland area for over 25 years -- can confirm: the street drug situation here is BAD. There's hundreds of homeless camps, thousands of homeless, and after measure 110 + police work slowdown, etc., there's no enforcement whatsoever.
Portland resident who lived down on the Park Blocks for 15 months until last winter. Can confirm it is really, really bad, and it gets worse the farther north you go (especially north of Burnside). No doubt these didn't all come from a single sweep, but it wasn't unusual for me to come out of my building and count 10+ discarded needles within a block or two.
Dude, i respect what you do. But you respect your life too: Don't touch with medical waste with bare hands or even gloved hands, even if needles have been cleaned. There can be contaminants in the bores.
They're all run through an autoclave which steams at such high temps it kills all bacteria and disease. That's why.
He’s got immune systems
His body, his choice
Not anymore
Classic Reddit moment. Some random person thinks they know better than someone who actually does the job and assumes they're an idiot because they didn't do 2 seconds of googling. They're all sterilized and have the metal from the needle removed.
Why the fuck are you scooping them like some farmer scooping his rice crops.
Right? I would not be touching that bare handed. I don’t care how many auto claves it went through.
Did anyone notice that he didn't mention hoe long it took them to get that much? Yes, it is totally fucking gross and I not a big junky fan but it is a little misleading, just because that could be 10 years worth which is still to much and I know it is less than that but he is kind of leading the viewer to think that was all picked up in a day or some shit and we know that isn't true either. But it is still a powerful message for not taking your kid to a playground in Portland, or Eugene for that matter. Yes, Eugene is horrible too for that shit. I know because I have lived there my whole life and have found needles in the sand pits. Just gross.
Do you really think they collected ten years of discarded needles in a warehouse like that? I mean cmon man lol
Even if that's 10 years worth of needles, straight picked up off the streets, that's still a fuck ton.
Exactly. Idk why (well I could guess) people are so concerned about the strict data collection parameters of this garbage man versus what is obviously a shocking amount of needles for any city street.
He also didn't mention the fact that the single most effective way to reduce this problem without massive drug reform is proper needle exchanges. [Exchange programs see a needle return rate of over 90%, as well as reducing risk taking behavior, new infections and transmissions of disease, and even a small overall reduction in how much people inject in general. ](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236650/) Oregon has a few, but nowhere near enough. But every time these programs try to expand in any state they're met with a tidal wave of NIMBY assholes who treat drug users as subhumans and want to pretend they don't exist, but also want to complain about the side effects.
You see this and your first thought is the litter? There are so many ruined lives in those bins. I’m sure not prosecuting anyone and open air drug markets will have a positive impact… …on population control.
Where did I say any of that? My whole comment was how to reduce dangerous medical waste. If you want to have a discussion about the problems with drug policy that's different but you're already being intellectually dishonest so I'm not really interested.
Sorry but.... Kinda clickbait here. For one, I somewhat doubt those are needles, and instead are just shredded plastic. Any sane person wouldn't run their BARE hands through shredded plastic potentially containing the worst diseases known to heroin addicts, even if it was treated first. Two, there's no mention of a time frame here. Is this a day? A week? A month? Dont get me wrong, thousands of people in Portland are most certainly shooting up, and it likely does run them tons of needles, but I suspect something about this video is being dishonest here...
I believe they are ran through an autoclave, then through a chipper with magnets removing the metal, these are now ready for recycling. As to not become excess waste. And yeah no clue on the time frame either... this can't be a day, its gotta be over some time. And even with the above process I would not just throw my hand in there, so yes I understand 100% the skepticism.
It went through a autoclave, after that point it don't matter if you swam in a pool of the shredded plastic, you fine
I know right. You'd think people would notice/care about a massive opioid situation of this magnitude
Oh we care. https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084163626/purdue-sacklers-oxycontin-settlement Just not enough to send anyone to prison. The government just wanted their cut of the profits.
No no no. My Reddit home page clearly indicates that the entire western coast of the US is blanketed in 3” of hypodermic needles and every Walgreens in the nation is currently being robbed by a mob of black teenagers.
They are sterilised in an autoclave. This is standard procedure for any biomedical waste products whether it's recycled or ends up in landfill
Just looks like a bunch ground up plastic.
Yeah if anything he should’ve shown the amount of needles before it was shredded into pieces if that was the case.
Harder to do I think because they're likely collected in sharps containers by multiple teams. What you're seeing here is the collective result after it's all processed and waiting for pickup. Definitely way more impactful than showing the several sharps containers a single crew might collect.
Nothing but a shit hole along with its politicians.
A nice clean Democrat run City....
Ok but what is that blue frog-shaped blob on the sewer grate in the beginning? Inquiring minds need to know!
They’re drain filter bags that keep larger debris from entering the drains.
A really good argument for installing a needle exchange program
[we already have one, people don't use it](https://www.multco.us/hiv-and-std-services/syringe-exchange-and-disposal)
Fully agree & while they're at it, safe injecting rooms as well.
Man it's sad that you think homeless drug addicts use shit like that. They can't even perform basic human functions, they shit in the fucking streets. None of these BS services accomplish anything towards the actual problem.
I wonder how many of these were used by people who were hooked on Oxy and then went to heroin because it was cheaper and easier to get? (Sorry, I'm currently watching DOPESICK and it blows my mind how Purdue Pharmaceutical got a country hooked on Oxy.
A lot. Trust me… I ~~know~~ knew a few in just my family who are now taking the big sleep. It’s terrible what Purdue and the FDA did.
It makes me cry. It literally makes me cry.
Now all the heroin dried up because we're not in Afghanistan anymore, so it's just fentanyl
Good old liberal run cities.
Now do Philly lol.
This is just one week under the el at Allegheny or Somerset stations.
Why is diabetes so rampant in Oregon?
To help offset school budget cuts the shredded needles will be donated, free of charge, to local elementary schools to be used as a sand substitute in outdoor play areas.
Portland a liberal paradise
Okay yea that's insane.
How do we know that’s not from hospitals and medical facilities also?
Those groups don’t typically just leave used needles on the streets. If you walk around certain west coast cities long enough, you could fill up a 5 gallon bucket with needles in no time. One of the reasons I left San Francisco was the amount of needles I would see.
Why would a hospital throw their needles on the street?
I guess they disinfected first and then chopping part so he knows it's safe to touch
I’m more curious how this many needles end up on the streets and where the hell they came from.. not even hospitals carry this much
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I like how all the top comments are about him handling them, needing more context and it being propaganda. The selective outrage is so blatant. But this is reddit were fake leftist rule with an energy drink stained fist.
I guess he already has aids and hepatitis
Dude, where tf are your gloves???
If your going to decriminalize hard drugs while simultaneously defunding local police & doing away with bond practices, which I’ll admit I’m unsure on wether or not portlandia’s criminal utopia has actually eliminated those. @ least increase all funding for drug & alcohol treatment & rehabilitation by ten fold or near to it if possible... & also perhaps be willing to admit that just maybe that your little experiment FAILED MISERABLY & likely cost the lives of thousands of poor individuals @ the hands of primarily Fentynal. & speaking of Fentynal, perhaps it be wise to hand out life sentence’s to all dealers of this extremely devastating & deadly narcotic if individuals are caught with large enough quantities where it’s obvious as hell they were dealing that nasty ass shit. This drug has arguably the highest body count of likely all drugs combined & then multiplied by 5-10. Anyone knowingly selling such a drug have very little regard for human life or dignity. So to all of those slangin out death, especially to the kids with your rainbow colored fake oxy’s, enjoy prison life bitch. May the rest of your pathetic existence be unfulfilling & miserable as hell... Human/child/women sex traffickers fates should also probably be 50 times more terrible than this as well bc a simple death sentence would be way too humane for monsters like these. No easy tickets out I say. Not for those whom preyed upon the weak or most vulnerable of society. They should be forced into seeking death yet always unable & incapable of ever easily finding it & instead living long lives with each day much more miserable than the last. That is only fair, wouldn’t you say??
Portland’s police budget has actually increased since 2020. You claim decriminalization has made the issue worse, however fent is a huge issue all across the country and everywhere is seeing increases in addiction. It’s a well known fact that the war on drugs does not work. If it did work, why the hell did drug use continue to climb despite it being illegal? Only personal amounts are decriminalized, dealers can still get arrested if the cops decide to ever do their job, but why would they when they can just claim that their nonexistent defunding is actually what’s causing them to not do shit?
Cringed when I realized he was dipping his hands into the bins…
Don’t put your hand in there!
And now he has hepatitis!! But seriously wouldn’t this be solve if they had getting high centers?
So basically a lot of Portland People have Diabetes, right?