Police, sheriffs across Oregon scramble to find place to destroy drugs as incinerator closes

For more than 30 years, Portland police officers have packed up the rocks of confiscated crystal meth, baggies of weed and blocks of powdered fentanyl and made the 38-mile trek to Marion County.

There, Oregon’s only municipal waste incinerator has burned them to generate power, a crucial step in ensuring the drugs do no more harm.

But that all came to an end in December…

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