{"id":37235,"date":"2015-10-02T16:20:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=37235"},"modified":"2015-10-02T16:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:20:59","slug":"automated-garbage-collection-begins-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/10\/automated-garbage-collection-begins-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated Garbage Collection<br> Begins In Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37236\" title=\"trash\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trash-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trash.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Getting rid of your trash is getting even easier in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in Lehigh Acres will have\u00a0automated garbage collection starting\u00a0Oct. 5, with same-day collection for all household waste, recyclables and yard waste.<\/p>\n<p>Over 47,000 new wheeled garbage carts were delivered to homes\u00a0over the past six weeks\u00a0as part of the change.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cThe new carts will be easier for residents to maneuver to the curb, easier for haulers to empty without injury and will present a uniform street side appearance,\u201d said Pam Keyes, director of the Lee County Public Utilities Department.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are asked to leave 3 feet between their garbage and recycle carts and any other items at the curb including mailboxes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone having a service issue is asked to call Progressive\u2019s customer service at\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">239-368-2300<\/span>\u00a0or Lee County Solid Waste at 239-533-8000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting rid of your trash is getting even easier in Lehigh Acres. Residents in Lehigh Acres will have\u00a0automated garbage collection starting\u00a0Oct. 5, with same-day collection for all household waste, recyclables&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37235"}],"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=37235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}