{"id":36679,"date":"2015-08-20T22:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T02:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36679"},"modified":"2015-08-20T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T02:18:09","slug":"automated-trash-collection-arrives-oct-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/08\/automated-trash-collection-arrives-oct-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated Trash Collection Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36680\" title=\"Garbarge bins\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Garbarge-bins-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Garbarge-bins-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Garbarge-bins.png 593w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Coming Oct 5 Lehigh Acres will have automated trash collection after commissioners approved a new contract with Progressive Waste Solutions for fully automated trucks and bigger bins.<\/p>\n<p>All the new 95 gallon bins have wheels, lids and arrows to show residents which way to face the bin on the curb for a quick easy pickup.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Some people think it will be easier, but others don&#8217;t like the change and say that a 95-gallon bin is just too big.<\/p>\n<p>For people concerned about bin size, they can be exchanged later for a 65-gallon bin or a 35-gallon bin. All will work with the new automated trucks.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Waste Solutions will start servicing the area in October. Delivery of the bins to homes will begin next week. They cannot be used until Oct. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming Oct 5 Lehigh Acres will have automated trash collection after commissioners approved a new contract with Progressive Waste Solutions for fully automated trucks and bigger bins. All the new&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}