{"id":3927,"date":"2025-03-09T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2025-03-09T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T22:48:41","slug":"volunteers-find-19000-needles-while-picking-up-trash-around-local-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers Find 19,000 Needles While Picking Up Trash Around Local Waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group&#8217;s co-founders believe the problem stems from needle exchange programs that are giving away needles instead of requiring an exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A volunteer organization is alerting people about the&nbsp;massive amount of needles&nbsp;they&#8217;re finding in and along&nbsp;Sacramento&nbsp;waterways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;River City Waterway Alliance&nbsp;showed ABC10 a photo of more than 19,000 needles they&#8217;ve removed in the past two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"More than 19,000 needles removed near the Sacramento waterways\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZUYEnIgejE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/local\/thousands-of-needles-sacramento-waterways\/103-c920ac76-6af0-4924-b0f5-fe865bb4a2de\">MORE &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group&#8217;s co-founders believe the problem stems from needle exchange programs that are giving away needles instead of requiring an exchange. A volunteer organization is alerting people about the&nbsp;massive amount of needles&nbsp;they&#8217;re finding in and along&nbsp;Sacramento&nbsp;waterways. The&nbsp;River City Waterway Alliance&nbsp;showed ABC10 a photo of more than 19,000 needles they&#8217;ve removed in the past two years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Volunteers Find 19,000 Needles While Picking Up Trash Around Local Waterways<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-trail","category-rafting","category-safety","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}