{"id":313711,"date":"2026-05-13T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:13:12","slug":"l-a-should-focus-on-keeping-the-trash-from-spilling-into-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313711\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. should focus on keeping the trash from spilling into streets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I live in Orange County and drive into Los Angeles weekly to visit my brother in a nursing home. As someone who once lived in the city, I am disappointed to see overflowing trash bins, illegal dumping, plastic bags and clogged storm drains in many areas.<\/p>\n<p>Before imposing more restrictions on plastic products, city leaders should focus on the controllable problem: keeping trash from escaping into streets, drains, rivers and eventually the ocean (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/environment\/story\/2026-05-07\/californias-single-use-plastic-law-is-angering-all-sides\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSweeping California law on single-use plastic meets with outrage from all sides as it goes live,\u201d<\/a> May 7). Even with environmentally friendly products available, we will continue to pollute our oceans and waterways until we address this low-hanging fruit first.<\/p>\n<p>Better trash collection, street cleaning, storm-drain maintenance and enforcement against dumping would do more to protect the environment and restore pride in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>David Boston, Cypress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I live in Orange County and drive into Los Angeles weekly to visit my brother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1409,2072,14299,10372,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,21659,13449,16425,50078,116411,131346,1291,131347,4796,131348],"class_list":["post-313711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-city","tag-editor","tag-enforcement","tag-illegal-dumping","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-ocean","tag-plastic","tag-river","tag-single-use-plastic","tag-storm-drain","tag-storm-drain-maintenance","tag-street","tag-sweeping-california-law","tag-trash","tag-well-trash-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}