San Francisco’s Ongoing Trash Can Problem

There’s about one City trash can for every 291 San Franciscans

A picture of a ransacked trashcan in the Tenderloin. (Photo: Matt Haney via Twitter)

There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t see several stray pieces of trash to either my left or right when leaving my apartment — never mind that a Public Works-maintained trash can sits less than fifty feet from the entrance gate. There’s also one straight across the street. There’s a…