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