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Design vs. Critters: Toronto Orders 500,000 Raccoon-Resistant Trash Cans
Industrial design to the rescue
Here in star-studded New York we've got paparazzi going through certain people's garbage, hoping to catch a glimpse of Madonna's medication or Liev Schreiber's CVS receipts. But in the rest of North America, it's raccoons that are going through the trash. As you can see here, the crafty little creatures have no problem manipulating garbage can lids:
Secure in the knowledge that their masks will hide their identity, the brazen animals often commit their crimes in broad daylight, sometimes in gangs:
To combat this Derick Foster, Senior Industrial Designer at container manufacturer Rehrig Pacific Company, was tasked with designing a raccoon-resistant trash can lid. Here's the EnviroGuard design he and his team came up with:
The design was good enough to snag a 10-year contract with the raccoon-plagued city of Toronto, which has ordered some 500,000 of them. Here's what happens when a raccoon encounters one of these:
Stymied by the new cans, raccoons in the greater Toronto area are reportedly migrating elsewhere:
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these fat, filthy greasy bastards are allowed to wreak havoc in toronto, because someone thinks they're cute. they tear walls and roofs apart to access attics and crawl spaces, they march around in stinking mobs and kick over every garbage can in sight, then strew the contents all over your sidewalk. there are thousands and thousands of them .. and if you don't like it -- or them, you can do ..... nothing. you can't touch them, you can't harass them ... at best: you can hire someone at large expense to trap them, and they'll drive them about a mile away and release them ... and the ignorant pigs will be back on your property before the animal control guy can get back to stuff an invoice for $500 in your mailbox.