Dawg raises hind leg to new Trash cans … 2026

Friends,

Room 200 is a long way from the 369 linear feet behind the Armory  …

Just offered as Tolstoy length post to Mission Local  …

New containers will make street trash worse,

People are usually in a hurry when they pause to discard an empty coffee cup or food container and so they more ‘fling’ their debris at the City trash receptacle instead of slowing down enough to physically ‘stuff’ it.

Thus, having a big hole to put your stuff in is a big advantage.

The new model has two small holes.

Which will result in more missed connections and thus, more trash on the sidewalks and streets around the cans.

I know because my dog and I pick up an average of 5=6 bags of trash daily on our DPW Volunteer walks and if you can’t transfer them from your cart into the City containers due to size differences then the bags get left alongside the containers and are quickly vandalized in our Mission locale.

Thus, the old concrete vestibules with the simple plastic barrel inside  work best and please deliver them with plain handles (like in Dolores Park) on the doors instead of cheap plastic locks that are quickly disabled by desperate Homeless or scurrying Recology drivers (now that’s a tough job you gotta be strong as an Olympian and able to drive   like a UPS delivery person and fear no sight nor smell and SF has a driver in a national competition with a 100 grand prize) …

I watch these guys (have yet to see a female) under my window at 14th and Valencia and they have to run across bike lanes loaded with lithium powered scooters doing personal bests of 40mph with a girlfriend backed into the driver’s groin in front or a child hanging on for dear life in back  …

Plus, the driver is dragging a heavy toter barrel with the combined radar signature of Tarzan dragging Jane by the hair.

I’m just saying that loading and emptying these things needs to be a fast easy process and these new models are not conducive to that.

Understand that ?

Let me try another …

“Soldiers with short muskets please stand closer to target.”

Naw, that could be misunderstood  …

In short, the old concrete cans with the river pebble texture are best and they are even easier to a access once strong vandals have torn off their raised metal roofs.

Simplify, simplify, simplify, Kiss, kiss, kiss  …

Those new works of art might do OK in Pacific Heights I was thinking but then noted that they plan a deployment of 3,000 which could foul things up even worse in Containment Zones but that’s another story.

I told Lurie all of this through his Press people when he could have saved 17 million on assorted and flawed leftover Breed trash contracts and he could have cancelled the incomplete contracts but did not so all of the crap you see around the new structures is on him.

go Niners  !!