Did they take second jobs waiting tables and delivering newspapers? Cause if the used taxpayer money, you were forced to pay for them, for yourself and everyone else.
We have them in my city, provided by the sanitation department, which retains ownership. I’ll say this—they have a life expectancy, and eventually the claws on the trucks, yanking them up and down, combined with weathering, do cause damage. Lid hinges break, plastic cracks, wheels fall off. I fill out a from online and a week or two later a van comes, takes the broken one and drops off a new one. No additional charge.