Town of San Francisco is looking for new public trash cans to chase away trash scavengers — and native officers are contemplating shelling out a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars} on high-tech prototypes that can value as much as $20,000 every, a report mentioned.
Town at the moment has about 3,000 rubbish cans in public locations, however the present ones are regularly preyed on by human scavengers who depart behind a large number, the performing director of the Public Works division mentioned, KTVU reported.
“They decide the lock, they dump the entire can on the road after which type by way of the issues they need whereas the rubbish is both on the sidewalk or out on the road,” mentioned Performing Director Alaric Degrafinried.
Moderately than select from already-manufactured bins, the town might launch a $537,000 pilot program for a contractor to fabricate 15 receptacles, based on the report.
Underneath this system, the contractor will create three prototype designs and the town will order 5 of every at $20,000 apiece, the report mentioned.
Town hopes to create a high-tech, vandalism-resistant mannequin and roll it out by the tip of this 12 months.
Whereas the prototype is costly, metropolis officers mentioned the precise alternative value could be about $3,000 to $4,000 per can, based on the report.
Town’s supervisor, Matt Haney, instructed the information station he was involved in regards to the excessive price ticket for this system.
“I noticed the road merchandise mentioned 15 of them for $300,000? That’s a unprecedented value per can,” Haney mentioned.
