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What belongs in your FOGO bin? Definitely not Ozempic needles

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A waste management company in northwest Tasmania is dealing with an expensive problem: medical waste like Ozempic needles appearing regularly in food and garden organic compost bins. Per ABC News, the issue costs the company around seven hundred thousand dollars per year, with council ratepayers ultimately picking up the tab.

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-29/tasmanian-waste-co...

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