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peanut_worm
San Francisco is the filthiest city I have ever been to. I don’t understand the appeal at all. Why not just put in normal trash cans and hire someone to pick up the damn trash.
SpicyLemonZest
That wouldn't really help. A lot of the coverage dances around this, but one of the major problems with the existing cans is that people spill them all over the street while looking for recyclables to exchange.
UncleEntity
Then put a recycle bin next to the trash can. Maybe even a $20,000 AI recycle bin that thanks them for saving the planet.

I don’t even bother throwing cans away, just set them on top of the trash can and half the time they disappear before I walk out of the store.

GauntletWizard
That won't stop people from digging through for the miscategorized cans that end up in the garbage anyway. Which I suspect, given that most cans ended up in the trash bin even in upscale corporate microkitchens with three containers next to each other with sorting instructions on a poster above them, would be a lot.
peanut_worm
Give me 20k and I will design you a trash can that you cannot dig around in.
junon
My issue when I lived there wasn't the trash. It was the human feces lining the streets.
postalrat
They are going to be hearing from me if they think they can put ugly trash cans within 3000 feet of my house!!
srdixon
$20K to clean up SF seems like a reasonable cost
exabrial
Every time I speak out against taxes... I'm ridiculed. Well, this is what you bought!
ChristianGeek
Whoever wrote the headline for this piece deserves a raise.