The new public garbage can (L) showing up on the streets of the Richmond District
If you’ve cruised around the neighborhood lately, you may have noticed the new garbage cans that are gracing our corners throughout the district. The new British racing car green cans are more ornate than their blocky, concrete predecessors, display the seal of San Francisco, and feature a compartment up top for recyclables (bottles and cans).
You’ll find them along all the major arteries like Fulton, Geary, California and Clement. Maybe this bit of beautification was timed with Superbowl 50?
Hey, how about putting the old ones out on the promenade at Ocean Beach? I hear they have a garbage can identity crisis going on…
Sarah B.
I noticed this when getting off the ob 1Cal on Sunday at 6th…. and the new one was already overflowing……..
Makes it easier for the bottle collectors to collect their bottles, I approve.
I didn’t think anyone could make a negative comment about this, then BAM! First comment in and someone is complaining!
Those new ones look like they are all metal. They probably have a higher value as salvage material then the old concrete ones. They might start disappearing “mysteriously”…
Do you think the lady living at the 7th and California bus stop will use the trash can on 6th and California?
@Richmond – they look nice, but if the city doesn’t have a better schedule to empty them, it doesn’t do much good!
Since the new models are more open perhaps their contents will burn faster and hotter then the smoldering results the homeless gets with the old model when they put a match to them for warmth.
They may look nice but…how do they taste?
Are they gluten free?
Low calorie?
Just saw that the ones at the Panhandle playground were removed – apparently the rats really took a liking to the new open design…
http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2016/02/03/oh-look-no-more-garbage-cans-at-the-golden-gate-park-panhandle-playground-why-rats-lots-and-lots-and-lots-of-rats/
They need to empty them twice as much. I really don’t care what they look like, but they need to respond to the fact that some people are using them as their dumping ground for household trash.
Remember that the pebble-encrusted ones were brown, originally? Ha
^ I like that the doors won’t hang open as on the old ones, though the old ones were more substantial looking.
Stuart the doors became broken on the old brown, then green ones because they were mangled by non-DPW recyclables scavengers.
There needs to be more vigorous enforcement of dumping household trash because it is law in SF that all addresses pay for collection service by Recology.
As of last Saturday at least a few of the trash cans at Ocean Beach had reappeared along one stretch of the promenade… We’ll see if they stay!
Perhaps they could install one at the California Stairs. They removed the old one and didn’t replace it.
The new bins need a solid liner! In any amount of wind/rain, the trash escapes through the grate container and out the gap around the bottom edge. Now trash is spilled out every morning around each bin… really poor implementation to not include a solid bin inside!