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Body found on conveyor belt of NJ recycling facility (nj1015.com)
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Law enforcement descended on a Monmouth County recycling facility after employees reported seeing a dead body on a conveyor belt Wednesday afternoon.

State Police Sgt. Charles Marchan said workers at the Republic Services recycling facility were sorting materials on a conveyor belt around 2:40 p.m. when they saw the body.

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The body of a man was found by troopers but has not yet been identified.

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What colour bin is for corpses?

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Green, organics

[–] Zier@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Soylent Green.

[–] Baggins@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

Well played.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's been a few cases of people sleeping in dumpsters who've been picked up and dumped in the truck. I wonder if that happened here?

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I've seen it mentioned on communities related to.suicide also, the desire to climb in a trash bin and od because it removes the risk of being discovered by children or similar. I think the assumption in they'll just get buried in lamdfil and forgotten about

[–] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

The full Sopranos ending has finally been revealed!