Pubdate: Tue, 01 Dec 2015
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Copyright: 2015 Hearst Communications Inc.
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Author: Steve Glaeser

BOUNTY PROGRAM ON USED NEEDLES

Put a bounty on used syringes, perhaps 25 cents each. There are 
plenty of people on the streets collecting cans and bottles, why not 
syringes as well? Let the needle exchange make the payments. Far 
cheaper than increasing the budgets for streets and parks who clean 
up. A bounty on needles would be as effective as a redeemable deposit 
has been for cans and bottles.

Steve Glaeser, Berkeley
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