Dubbo Catches | Gross pollutants: Syringes and nappies found in river system

By Matt Hansen
January 23 2018 - 8:00pm
COMING DOWN THE RIVER: With only half of Dubbo drains flowing into the Macquarie River having a gross pollutant traps, pollution like syringes and nappies are all too common. Photo: CONTRIBUTED
COMING DOWN THE RIVER: With only half of Dubbo drains flowing into the Macquarie River having a gross pollutant traps, pollution like syringes and nappies are all too common. Photo: CONTRIBUTED

Used syringes caught up in yabby nets, and boxes of potentially disease ridden drug implements are all too common place on both the banks, and in the waters of Dubbo’s Macquarie River. Drug users obviously have chosen the local waterway as a preferred setting to inject, and have also found that the cities drains are an easy place to discard used syringes, both capped and uncapped.

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