Conditions just ‘offal’

By REBECCA ROSENBERG and DAN MANGAN

City sanitation workers yesterday were forced to pick through a filthy pile of property seized from

Zuccotti Park including dirty hypodermic needles, moldy food and glass-littered, broken gadgets.
“I pick up garbage [for a living], and these were some of the worst smells I’ve ever experienced,’’ one worker grumbled to The Post.

About 150 trashmen stuffed the massive pile of soiled tents, old bikes and spoiling food into dump trucks — 26 loads in all — and hauled it to a West 57th Street Sanitation facility so that workers could begin sorting the personal goods from garbage.

Occupy Wall Street protesters with proper ID can go to the facility this morning to get back their property.

As 10 unlucky Sanitation workers sorted the trash from reclaimable goods, they steered clear of a sealed pickle bucket which they suspected was filled with human waste.

Among the trash were clothes, suitcases, papers, plywood, books, laptop computers, smeared peanut-butter jars, cables, wire and shoes.

Many items were damaged, such as a bent laptop and two busted guitars.

Two protesters yesterday got to reclaim their stuff, but Sanitation workers soon cut off access because there was so much broken glass mixed in with the items.

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