I have bears rummaging through my trash in the mornings sometimes. I finally figured out what keeps them away.
I take one of the smaller 1 qt size pump sprayers with the handle on the lid and I fill it with a 1/2 - 1/2 mixture of
Walmart’s Lousianna Pete’s HOT HOT sauce and water. Spray the lids to the trash bins and around the sides. Problem solved. Washes off in the rain pretty well.
Good tip.....they were the white trash neighbors dogs...
Told him the next day if he didn’t keep his dogs locked up I would leave their heads on his porch...so they didn’t kill a little kid walking to school...
End of problem...
They finally moved...