Medical Wastes Found on Eastern Beaches
GAY HEAD, Mass. — Medical waste, including discarded needles and syringes, has turned up for the second consecutive summer on the beaches of Massachusetts.
“We used to joke that the Cape and Vineyard had a magical buffer zone, but that’s disappearing,” Richard Reston, editor and publisher of the Vineyard Gazette, told the Boston Sunday Globe. Coastal officials on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, south of Cape Cod, came upon syringes recently while cleaning up an oil spill.
Medical wastes have also turned up along beaches in Boston, Warren, R.I., and Staten Island, N.Y.
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