by Joe Burn : sfstandard – excerpg
An experimental trash can has been spotted in a sorry state as the city’s pilot to select a new kind of street bin comes to the end of its first round.
The pilot’s first 30 days ends Thursday and features concept cans and off-the-shelf varieties—costing between $11,000 and $20,900. The next round begins the same day and runs for another month, according to the Department of Public Works.
The most expensive prototype can, the “Soft Square,” was spotted Wednesday with a broken hinge at the intersection of Ocean and Plymouth avenues in Ingleside. It cost $20,900 to produce…(more)
Can we just fire the person who suggested these designs for incompetence? Who did not know that the metal cans were poorly designed and the materials would not hold up as “attractive” trash cans for longer than week? Metal needs constant cleaning and repair. If you expensive cans, go for he big bellies that have trash compactors in them.
I second the suggestion above, “big bellies with (solar powered) trash compactors in them” which I’ve seen successfully incorporated in other major cities.
Any idea how much the big bellies cost and how often they fill up? They should require less pickups and maintenance than the small non-compact versions.