{"id":57986,"date":"2023-05-23T17:43:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57986"},"modified":"2023-05-23T17:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:43:22","slug":"roads-become-dumping-grounds-for-trash-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/05\/roads-become-dumping-grounds-for-trash-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads become dumping grounds for trash &#038; tires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019re driving on Prospect Avenue in Lehigh Acres, you\u2019ll notice tires lining the road, eventually leading to a big pile of trash filled with at least 25 tires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-27-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-27-6.png 545w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-27-6-300x109.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have extra lots all near us where we live and I am constantly going out and cleaning up,\u201d said Karen Taylor, a Lehigh Acres resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor said she\u2019s resorted to having to clean up the trash herself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We reached out to Lee County about this problem and they say they are looking into it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-27a.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-27a.png 576w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-27a-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The county will pick up two regular tires with rims each week from your home on garbage day. Larger tires need to be taken to a resource recovery facility in Buckingham.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re driving on Prospect Avenue in Lehigh Acres, you\u2019ll notice tires lining the road, eventually leading to a big pile of trash filled with at least 25 tires.&nbsp; \u201cWe&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57986"}],"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=57986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57989,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57986\/revisions\/57989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}