SF News San Francisco Budget Cuts Trash Plans for City's New Fancy, Expensive Trash Cans The Department of Public Works has already spent more than half a million dollars on this project to customize and prototype new trash cans, but they said Friday it's on pause amid the city's budget deficit.
SF News Incredibly Pricey Trash Can Drama Returns, City Hall Committee Halts New Cans' Approval The saga of what were originally the widely derided $20,000 trash cans is back in the headlines, as a City Hall committee has put the final approval of the “Slim Silhouette” bins on hold over vandalism concerns.
SF News SF Public Works Announces Winner Of ‘$20,000 Trash Can’ Contest — The Slim Silhouette A pricey bureaucratic process that’s littered the national press with San Francisco jokes has come to an end, as a survey and pilot program has led SF Public Works to choose the Slim Silhouette as the city’s new public trash can design.
SF News SF Spent a Half Million Dollars Creating Fancy Trash Can Prototypes and More Survey Respondents Preferred Ugly Off-the-Shelf 'BearSaver' Model The trash-can saga drones on over at the Department of Public Works, and today we learn the results of that survey they ran seeking public opinion on six waste receptacle designs being considered.
SF News Reminder: You’ve Got One More Week to Give Feedback on Those $20,000 Trash Can Prototypes You SF taxpayers paid big money for those sleek new stainless steel (and very pricey) trash can prototypes, so you might as well get your money’s worth and try ‘em all in these final seven days of the feedback period.
SF News Behold! Your $20,000 Trash Cans Have Arrived In SF and Are Now At Your Disposal 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.
SF News SF Trash Bin Saga Gets Even More Complicated, Three New Models Now in the Running The already-laughingstock San Francisco trash can replacement drama is getting less resolution instead of more, as more new proposed bin models are now littering the landscape.
SF Politics SF Supes Approve $12,000 Price Tag for Those Trash Can Prototypes, Down From $20,000 A trash-y Public Works project that has been in the works for three years is pushing forward, but the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a lower budget for some pricey trash can prototypes than was originally requested.
SF News SF Supes Consider New Custom-Designed Trash Cans That Cost Up to $20,000 Per Can The latest boondoggle at City Hall involves a longstanding project to replace the city's street trash receptacles, and this week a Board of Supervisors committee approved a proposal to manufacture 15 prototype trash cans for testing on the street later this year.
SF News A Decade After Gavin Newsom Pulled SF's Trash Cans, Ed Lee Brings (Some Of) Them Back It was June of 2007, when then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared "We have too many garbage cans in the city," and ordered SF's Department of Public Works to remove half of the
