Posted on 03/02/2020 9:18:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
A local nonprofit is repurposing city garbage cans as storage units for homeless people.
The green cans were originally intended to be used for a city compost program, but the program eventually tanked, leaving the city with hundreds of unused cans.
The nonprofit Steelbridge has 100 city cans for homeless people to store their possessions in. The cans are then securely sealed and stored at Steelbridge.
“In this cart people can store as many things as people can fit in it as long as the lid can close and we can seal it off for their protection and privacy,” said Travis Clark, director of operations at Steelbridge.
Clark said the hope is to decrease homeless people from taking shopping carts but more importantly, to help them get a job.
“They can't leave and go around the streets with this. All it can do is stay within our facility and pick up and put their stuff in the bin,” Clark said.
Staff makes sure no food, weapons or drugs are stored inside.
“A lot of people find purpose in these little, ya know, a shirt or a bag or something they picked up off the street. Well if it's the one piece we can maintain for them to have change, we're going to make sure we can hold onto it for them,” Clark said.
Fifty cans are currently in use at Steelbridge, but staff said they’re hoping to fill 100. Other cities like San Diego, Phoenix and Los Angeles also offer similar programs for their homeless population.
Hmmm..storage bins for the homeless.
Questions:
1. Is this to keep them “fresh”? If so, how does one determine that they have gone “bad”?
2. Are we preserving them? Are we foreseeing a shortage of them in the future?
This was on the local news. Their intentions are good but rarely do things like this go as planned. It’s sort of a secure day locker so the homeless don’t have to pack all their crap into a (stolen) shopping cart. Anyway, we’ll see how it goes.
Why not put them up at Nancy’s place? She can stay in her DC. residence. Seriously, has anyone asked her for the keys?
The city has no recycling program? That has to be a first.
That’s what I call recycling!
People Serving People.
Yes, when the homeless go to sleep, they are picked up and turned into “Soylent Green” to feed the rich liberals.
Ironically, the Compost cans site is named “The Charles Heston Rest and Recycling Center”.
It won’t be the last. Recycling is a bust — with the possible exception of aluminum cans.
It seems to be that that would be awfully cramped.
Compost could be “yard waste”.
Maybe too many Illegals running “Yard-Maintenance” businesses?
The homeless will be bedding down in them before you know it.
Well, they’ve thought of everything and they have big hearts. What could possible go wrong?
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