{"id":205519,"date":"2026-04-22T00:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:57:17","slug":"state-dot-workers-trade-desks-for-trash-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205519\/","title":{"rendered":"State DOT workers trade desks for trash cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Office workers at the New York State Department of Transportation left their desks Tuesday to work outside.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of the DOT\u2019s annual Trash Blitz, which is in honor of Earth Day on April 22.<\/p>\n<p>Workers were sent to sites in Albany, Schenectady, and Saratoga counties.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT says littering tarnishes the state\u2019s landscape and threatens the safety of roadways, workers, pedestrians, and natural habitats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Office workers at the New York State Department of Transportation left their desks Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-205519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}