In summer, with the influx of tourists and day trippers doing take-out in order to eat on benches scattered throughout the city, garbage frequently overflows the garbage bins. It’s still a pretty clean city compared to other cities. You don’t have this problem in winter.
>>rather than raising the downtrodden up
I don’t know about SF, but in NE Florida most homeless men are people who don’t want to show an ID to get help because of warrants.
Perhaps they should empty the bins more often.
There are essentially no public trash bins in Japan except in train terminals. People carry their own generated trash with them in order not to litter. Of course, that takes an attitude about public cleanliness which would never take hold in the US.
The same thing used to happen at my former employer. One department was supposed to empty the trash but never did. My department cleaned the building (job sharing, no custodian). There was a trash can in the foyer near the time clock, the thing was always overflowing. You couldn’t miss it as it was under the time clock. The public also had to pass through this area. I finally removed the trash can and viola no more mountain of trash in the foyer.
Perhaps the trashcans are overflowing because there are corners without them. Maybe they simply need two trashcans on the busier corners, or maybe they just need to empty them more often. It’s not rocket science.
Just throw your trash on the ground.
Trash cans on the corner do attract trash, and that is a good thing. What is not a good thing is when they aren’t emptied regularly.
And deer crossing signs attract deer.