Hazardous waste

I used to live in new port richey, and I am glad I don't now. Stay out
of the trash. If you see anyone digging in trash guess what ? they are
trash too.

Even if they had a barrel beside the trash can with lights, signs, a
guy in monkey suit that begged anyone that came near it to please
throw needles and prescription information into the right bin, it
wouldn't happen.

npr was a decent city, they don't need people scrounging for cans.
Just get a cup and go beg in the middle of 19 like the rest of the
bums.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24879628/

Great timing on this article.

Look, I'm all for recycling (I'm assuming that's what you are doing) -
but I don't see why you'd want to dig through a store's trash anyway.
Couldn't you just look for cans elsewhere?

collect cans for internt payment?

To all of you who are using the word "dumpster". It wasn't the
dumpster JD was going through. It was "1 of the containers outside
the store". The containers=trash bins. All stores have at least 2
trash bins outside the FRONT of their store. 99% of all stores have
only 1 dumpster.

It is a VERY common occurance to see people look through these TRASH
BINS for cans. It's no freakin' big deal as long as they don't make a
mess and throw things on the pavement. Now, if a store has a problem
with people in the area making a mess due to going through the trash
cans then they CAN make a policy about people not going through the
trash bins. If a store has problems with people putting syringes in
the trash bins they may want to have a policy about going through the
trash bins. But there is NO company policy about it.

The trash cans outside the store are for CUSTOMER useage that's why
there usually is not a policy about customers going through it.
However, the dumpster is for STORE useage which is why we don't allow
people to go through that (i.e. a person pulling out a discarded item
that was returned by a customer for a refund so the person pulling the
item out of the dumpster can themselves go in and ask for a refund on
the same item). A good portion of stores now have locks on the
dumpsters.

Ok I have just a couple of questions:

1. Why in the hell were you in the dumpster getting cans, is it that
important to cash them in ???

2. I don't think junkies throw away their needles b/c they are gonna
need it later to shoot up again.

3. Do you normally get in dumpsters? And if the answer is yes, then
maybe pharmacy dumpsters are not a good choice along with hospital
dumpsters, and crack house dumpsters.

Dumpster Divers, gotta love em. Perhaps they just said that to keep
you out of the dumpsters.


Good Day

I'm out. I read three letters tonight - this is the third. They all
were bizarre. Off to something else. The Top 25 sure arracts a mixed
bag.

Talk about hazardous waste.

I doubt very much the store allows people to discard medical waste.
We're talking people shooting up and tossing their needles in the
dumpster. Be glad the employee warned you - the few nickels you'd get
from the cans isn't worth what you could get by being stabbed with a
used needle.

i'm almost certain that it wasn't doctors throwing out insulin
syringes. junkies don't care where their syringes go.

stop going through the trash and you wouldn't have this problem.

It's not that store employees knowingly throw syringes in the garbage.
It's that store customers do so, and the store employees bag up the
garbage and put it in the Dumpster.

While I respect and wholeheartedly endorse the art and science of
Dumpster Diving, your safety must be taken into consideration, and you
should be glad that the young man notified you. And you could be
trespassing. As someone who's read quite a bit on Dumpster Diving,
it's best to either (1) get permission from a business before going
through its garbage containers (they *are* on private property, after
all), or (2) do your diving late at night (quietly) when you're less
likely to be seen.

But man, one warning on syringes is all I would need. Besides, how
many aluminum cans could you get out of a Walgreen's Dumpster?

If I understand you complaint, you aren't upset that you couldn't
search the dumpsters. You said that "I fail to understand is why he
would put what he said in the order in which he said it. "

According to you he said "He stated that "we have people throwing
syringes, etc. in there. Sorry hon. It's company policy.""

Sou would have been OK if he said "Company policy doesn't allow you to
go through the dumpsters. People are throwing syringes in there"

Is that what you complaint really is....

What he meant was that they have people, who may not even be
customers, that use these cans to throw their syringes in. You ask
"why would that store allow people to discard medical waste in the
regular trash". OK, tell me, how do you stop it????? With a s
seperate "container"? You have to then assume people will do the
right thing by placing those articles in the right container. The
same people that didn't give a crap about throwing their medical waste
in the regular containers.

By the way, there's no company policy that states that someone can't
go through those outside trash bins (as long as they're neat about
it). They just can't go through the dumpsters.

J.D.,

"When a young back came up" ....what does that mean?

Bottom line " No dumpster diving".

As far as the company providing a Sharps Container for people
"hanging" in the alley to properly discard their needles...who you
kidding? I doubt we are talking about needles used in a legal /medical
context here.

BillR.

I don't think they specifically permit the throwing of syringes, etc.
in the trash. Just like you were able to access the containers, other
people have access to them, and may have disposed of their hazardous
waste before you arrived. The employee wasn't saying it was
permitted, just that it may have happened, and that it wouldn't be a
smart idea for you to go digging through the trash.