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Rubbish! San Francisco’s $20,000 designer trash can struggles to contain trash

San Francisco may struggle with an intractable housing crisis, gaping income inequality and a deserted downtown – but one thing it will not tolerate is second-rate trash cans.

In 2018, the city’s department of public works began the process of replacing its more than 3,000 existing public trash cans. Not content with the models already on the market, San Francisco launched what is now a three-and-half-year (and continuing), $550,000 project to design bespoke bins for its streets.

The design criteria for the trash cans stressed innovation (“Each can must be outfitted with an electronic sensor that sends alerts when nearing trash capacity so it can be emptied before overflowing”), aesthetics (“The design must be a visual asset on the sidewalk”), and above all, rummage-resistance.

The existing bins were “easy targets of scavengers, who rummage through them and leave behind a mess”, according to the public works department.

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