San Francisco is working on a plan to replace the city's public trash cans. Prototypes they're looking at testing will cost in the neighborhood of $20,000 apiece.
Here in Portland we have the opposite. The trash cans downtown let you put in cans so they can be easily removed. Unfortunately people still dump out the trash sometimes when they are searching for cans, but I much prefer our way. And of course bigger picture it is awful that anyone is reduced to that level of existence.
Yeah… downtown can be a fucking mess… piles of trash in many places & emptied trashcans…
I think the city should install trashcans that drop into a pit which can be removed from the ground with a dump-truck of sorts (that should solve the looking for cans & massive mess issue) and setup a bottle drop next to every bin with easily removable back so people can get the cans they need for redemption.
Here in Portland we have the opposite. The trash cans downtown let you put in cans so they can be easily removed. Unfortunately people still dump out the trash sometimes when they are searching for cans, but I much prefer our way. And of course bigger picture it is awful that anyone is reduced to that level of existence.
Hello fellow Portlander waves
Yeah… downtown can be a fucking mess… piles of trash in many places & emptied trashcans…
I think the city should install trashcans that drop into a pit which can be removed from the ground with a dump-truck of sorts (that should solve the looking for cans & massive mess issue) and setup a bottle drop next to every bin with easily removable back so people can get the cans they need for redemption.