<human>: Can you give me a shortened version of the text?

My family run our local rugby club. We had a call from the police the other day saying that there have been lots of syringes and needles found in a bush on the edge of our field, and that because it is a public health risk they would send someone to deal with it.

The next day we get a call back from the council stating that they could not get to the needles as they were in a bush, and that we would have to get a child to get them. Really? A child handling needles? I think not!

As we have about 300 kids on that field on a weekend we cleared them up into a cardboard box (really not that hard to get to either, we just moved a branch). The council are now saying that because they are no longer a public health risk it is our problem and there is nothing they can do.

The problem now is there is about 250 needles with god knows what in them sat in a box in the bar's cellar and I don't really want to handle them, and they can't stay where they are. Nowhere will take them unless in a sharps box, which we don't have, and although the one place we rang will supply one, i don't really want to have to sit there picking them out one by one and putting them in another box. Seems a bit risky to me.

Anyone have any advice of what we can do while handling them as little as possible?

We are in the UK.
<bot>: Found lots of needles dumped in our field, council want nothing to do with it because we cleared them up. Now have 250 needles sat in a cardboard box that no one will take because they need to be in a sharps box.