San Francisco is spending a fortune to design public trashcans, which will cost $5,000 a can

San Francisco, we salute you. The city has chosen not to use any of the thousands of time-tested garbage can models available from manufacturers to replace their existing, no-longer-desirable public trashcans. This city will not accept bland, inexpensive-but-functional waste containers available from manufacturers; instead, it is insisting on a custom trashcan fit for the used hypodermic needles and Hashiri containers discarded every day by their residents. — Read the rest