The beat up garbage bins of South Bayview

There is something that has to be said about Toronto’s garbage bins. They’re junk. No secret this unhappy truth about the weird looking containers that be-dot and bedevil our main streets. The story is always the same. You could see it in their loopy design and shanty-town construction the day they were introduced to a hapless public. They come from Astral Media, which is now the so-called out of home street furniture arm of Bell Media. The main business of this division of Bell however is not the furniture, it’s the ads that run on the bus shelters. A walk up and down South Bayview revealed at least six of these over-engineered bins in falling apart condition. It is a civic joke that the foot pedals on these bins break as soon as you look at them. Talk about a solution looking for a problem. Garbage bins need foot pedals like a spaniel needs a washroom.