{"id":5270,"date":"2018-06-12T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T05:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2018-06-12T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T05:58:13","slug":"seaside-heights-passes-new-garbage-collection-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/06\/seaside-heights-passes-new-garbage-collection-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Heights Passes New Garbage Collection Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5271\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Sea gull. (Credit: C Watts\/ Flickr)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5271\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5271\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k-1024x570.jpg\" alt=\"Sea gull. (Credit: C Watts\/ Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k-755x420.jpg 755w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k-640x356.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k-681x379.jpg 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea gull. (Credit: C Watts\/ Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seaside Heights officials have introduced a new ordinance that they believe will help keep the borough a bit cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance, introduced last week, requires residents and businesses to use garbage cans to hold trash, or if a can cannot be used, place the refuse in a sturdy black trash bag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a problem we see every morning, with white bags all over the place,&#8221; said Borough Administrator Christoper Vaz.<\/p>\n<p>White bags are susceptible to infiltration by hungry sea gulls who often rip the bags open with their beaks, causing trash to fall out onto the street and blow in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>The new ordinance will be the subject of a second hearing and final vote at the June 19 council meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/06\/seaside-heights-passes-new-garbage-collection-rules\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaside Heights officials have introduced a new ordinance that they believe will help keep the borough a bit cleaner. The ordinance, introduced last week, requires residents and businesses to use garbage cans to hold trash, or if a can cannot be used, place the refuse in a sturdy black trash bag. &#8220;It\u2019s a problem we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,6,5],"tags":[491,738,20],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-seaside-government","category-seaside-heights","tag-garbage-bag","tag-garbage-collection","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28204948308_19b8325a89_k.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1n0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}