{"id":54290,"date":"2022-01-14T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/no-garbage-recycling-service-in-kent-for-third-straight-day\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:22:22","slug":"no-garbage-recycling-service-in-kent-for-third-straight-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/no-garbage-recycling-service-in-kent-for-third-straight-day\/","title":{"rendered":"No garbage, recycling service in Kent for third straight day due to work stoppage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent residents didn&rsquo;t receive garbage, recycling or yard waste services for the third consecutive day on Friday, Jan. 14 due to a work stoppage.<\/p>\n<p>Republic Services sent robocalls Friday to customers to let them know about a drop-off site for garbage until noon Friday in the west parking lot of the accesso ShoWare Center, according to a city of Kent statement. Residents can drop off bagged garbage.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Republic sent robocalls to residential customers who were missed this week, and they will continue to explore other options as well,&rdquo; according to the city&rsquo;s statement. &ldquo;If you are not able to stop by, they will collect excess volume on your next scheduled collection day. Please bring a current bill for verification of service.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Arizona-based Republic Services contracts with the city of Kent to handle garbage, yard waste and recycling services. The contract runs through 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have not had service Jan. 12-14, due to a temporary work stoppage by union members in honor of striking teamsters against Republic Services in San Diego. The unions represent garbage, recycling and yard waste drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Republic Services has not released any information yet about when service might return.<\/p>\n<p>Many residents have not had service for two to three weeks after Republic Services canceled pickups due to flooding and snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republic Services sets up temporary drop-off site at ShoWare Center <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":54291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-54290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54290"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=54290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}