San Francisco Spent $550K And Four Years Designing A New Trash Can. Here Are The Results

Daily Caller ^ | 12/23/2022 | LAUREL DUGGAN

[Bon of Babble]

San Francisco’s city government spent $550,000 designing a new trash can through a four-year-long process which included a design contest and trial run, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

[Bon of Babble]

"Each model of the newly-selected “Slim Silhouette” will cost $2,000 to $3,000, but prototypes the city tested out cost $12,000 to $20,000 each."

They couldn't go to Home Depot and get a good trash can for $40?

[Bon of Babble]

I'm sure the people of San Francisco are relieved that their tax dollars are being spent on such important issues as trash cans - and not homeless, drug addicted, filthy streets.

[lgjhn23]

LIb insanity....ain’t nothin’ like it.

[gundog]

Hmmmm...San Francisco...looks like the thing might perform oral sex if you put a quarter in it.

[Rurudyne]

The people of ancient Britain built Stone Henge.

The Pharaohs build the pyramids.

Caesar built the Coliseum.

Paris build Notre Dame.

San Fransisco built a trash can.

[butlerweave]

It’s the back of a smartphone , LOL

[chuckee]

It’s rummage resistant which is good. You can’t retrieve your needle after you have tossed it...nor can anyone else

[jacknhoo]

Oh how wonderful ingenuity of Leftists. How blessed San Francisco is to have so much focus and industriousness on trashy culture.

[Leaning Right]

Fancy trash can there. I assume it’s made of solid silver. That’s the only way each one could cost thousands of dollars.

Or maybe it’s not made of silver, and most of that money is kickback money.
Hmm. I wonder which possibility is more likely here.

[Bernard]

Just like a mail box.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Looks like a ported woofer design.

[xp38]

That’s almost defence department level spending! Good job SF! Maybe you could recoup costs by selling the design to other leftie cities.

[smokingfrog]

Yeah. They need some needle exchange vending machines next.

[Dr. Sivana]

They couldn't go to Home Depot and get a good trash can for $40?

They would wind up in stolen shopping carts.

[butlerweave]

so people hated recycling and threw the garbage into city trash cans and the small holes will stop that ,LOL

[Vaduz]

Somebody’s designer uncle had a good Christmas.

[Bon of Babble]

They would wind up in stolen shopping carts.

These will be stolen as well and wind up in recycling centers, where they fetch around $10 each for drug money - the recycling center will sell them back to SF for thousands of dollars each.

[Clutch Martin]

Turn it sideways and start the bbq...

[Qwapisking]

Well...San franShitco did design an appropriate remembrance of its place in history and now will always be remembered, not as the builders of Stonehenge, nor the builders of the pyramids, the coliseum or Norte Dame but as the trash can of these United States. Henceforth, when shown in the history books of the future, “San franShitco” will become synonymous with “The trashcan”. What a fitting end.

[Thommas]

It should have a ‘pop top’ to reveal a bullet proof commode.