Seattle Picked Up 661,000 Needles Last Year?!
Seattle says it’s making progress. The city’s latest Clean City report shows millions of pounds of waste removed—and hundreds of thousands of needles collected from public spaces.
But here’s the bigger question: why does it keep coming back?
In this commentary, Charlie Harger looks beyond the cleanup numbers and into the cycle playing out across the city—from encampment sweeps to parks that are cleared… and then quickly fill again.
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