San Francisco is testing new garbage bin designs to help clean up its streets — and they're not cheap.
Key points:The public can help pick the winning design by using a QR code to take part in a surveyCostly, boxy bins are among six new designs hitting San Francisco's streets this summer as part of the city's long search for the perfect can.
San Francisco residents are currently being given the opportunity to evaluate them, along with three off-the-shelf options added to the pilot program after officials faced criticism. The Slim Silhouette, at $US18,800 per prototype, is made of stainless steel bars that give would-be graffiti artists less space to tag.
Others already show the drip stains of inconsiderate coffee drinkers or have attracted dumping, with people leaving dilapidated bathroom cabinets and plastic bags full of empty wine bottles next to them.Garbage on San Francisco city streets has been an issue for decades. In 2007, then-mayor Gavin Newsom eliminated about 1,500 of the city's 4,500 garbage bins, because he said they were not helping keep streets clean and were becoming magnets for more rubbish.
In 2014, San Francisco launched its "Pit Stop" program in the Tenderloin neighbourhood, the epicentre of drug dealing and homelessness in the city, setting up portable public toilets. In 2018, it created a six-person "poop patrol" team amid demand to power-wash sidewalks.
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