The goal, as one Public Works employee says (with a completely straight face), is that “You can remove garbage in a really beautiful way.” Image: Public Works Why are they making it so complicated to just put out trash cans? As Public Works explains in the video above, they’re trying to find “A trash can that works for the city of San Francisco.” That’s why they contracted out their own pricey custom designs, even though an existing model may end up scoring better. The green and yellow dots indicate the locations of the more affordable “off the shelf” models, dubbed BearSaver, Ren Bin, and Open Wire Mesh. Orange and gray dots show the locations of the fancy custom-designed trash can with names like Salt and Pepper, Slim Silhouette, and Soft Square. The folks at Public Works have provided the above map of where to find the new trash cans in San Francisco. The Chronicle also adds that a “delivery delay meant the last couple cans, which were supposed to be installed Monday, won’t be on the streets until Thursday.” Still the paper says that installation will be completed this week, each prototype will be tested in two different locations during the 60-day pilot. "The winner could be San Francisco’s next trash can." Introducing Salt & Pepper, Slim Silhouette, Soft Square, BearSaver, Ren Bin and Open Wire Mesh. "A high-cost beauty contest is about to start on the streets of San Francisco." So this past May, Public Works also started considering already-existing designs described as “off the shelf” trash can models that were not custom-designed specifically for San Francisco. Now, in fairness, these wildly expensive wastebins are prototypes (they would cost $2,000-$3,000 apiece as mass-produced units), and we soon learned that some of the prototypes would cost as “little” as $12,000 apiece. If you thought it was peak San Francisco when we discovered a year ago that City Hall was contemplating $20,000 trash cans, now consider an even higher peak whipping out your smartphone and snapping a QR code of a trash can so you can complete an eight-item questionnaire on whether that trash can effectively did its duty as a trash can. Your designer-label “smart” trash bins finally hit the streets of SF this week after a year of mockery over their exorbitant cost, and you can submit your thoughts on them - with a smartphone-enabled QR code of course.
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