Syringe Tide

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Syringe Tide refers to a period during 1987-88 in New Jersey, where significant amounts of medical waste washed onto Atlantic Ocean beaches in Jersey Shore communities in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The syringes and other medical waste had washed away from the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. New York City was forced to pay for the cleanup after New Jersey took them to court.[1]

This may be the specific incident cited in Billy Joel's 1989 hit single We Didn't Start the Fire by the line "Hypodermics on the shores".

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  1. ^ New York City to Pay Jersey Town $1 Million Over Shore Pollution (article summary), The New York Times, December 8, 1987
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