{"id":40994,"date":"2025-09-16T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/how-clemson-prepares-for-gameday-chaos-8-tons-of-trash-and-17-hour-shifts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:30:39","slug":"how-clemson-prepares-for-gameday-chaos-8-tons-of-trash-and-17-hour-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/how-clemson-prepares-for-gameday-chaos-8-tons-of-trash-and-17-hour-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"How Clemson Prepares for Gameday Chaos: 8 Tons of Trash and 17-Hour Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rjaI6595UwI?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>As Clemson football fans pour into town, city crews work around the clock to keep the community clean. 7 News reporter Eriana Meadows takes you behind the scenes with Clemson Public Works, where workers like Don Johnson \u2014 a 20-year veteran \u2014 spend up to 17 hours on game days collecting up to 8 tons of trash. From sunrise cleanups to overnight shifts, these crews make sure fans can enjoy the game without wading through garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Public Works says every resident and visitor can help by throwing trash in bins or leaving it beside them if they\u2019re full. Student organizations also lend a hand, like the American Waterworks Association, which organizes yearly lake cleanups near Clemson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Clemson football fans pour into town, city crews work around the clock to keep the community clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}