{"id":51702,"date":"2021-12-17T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=51702"},"modified":"2021-12-18T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T19:05:47","slug":"is-lehigh-acres-turning-in-a-trash-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/12\/is-lehigh-acres-turning-in-a-trash-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lehigh Acres turning into a trash hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hundreds of pounds of trash are popping up in unexpected places in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"531\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/furn-trash.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/furn-trash.png 531w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/furn-trash-300x95.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, four different mattresses, box springs, and even&nbsp;a couch were left in a residential neighborhood. Now, residents of the street it was found on are concerned that Lehigh is becoming a popular destination for dumpers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is, there are a lot of empty lots in Lehigh Acres, which means there are plenty of places for people to leave trash like this, despite the fact that the penalty for leaving more than 15 pounds of trash is $500 and even jail time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County offers a number of online resources for people who don\u2019t know what to do with their trash, by visiting their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leegov.com\/solidwaste\/dispose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solid waste landing page<\/a>.&nbsp;They also even have a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leegov.com\/rfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dumping report portal<\/a>&nbsp;that anyone can use to report a dump like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of pounds of trash are popping up in unexpected places in Lehigh Acres. On Thursday, four different mattresses, box springs, and even&nbsp;a couch were left in a residential neighborhood.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702"}],"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=51702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51708,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702\/revisions\/51708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}