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What is Your Design Advice for These Tilted Trashcans Next to Bike Paths?

It definitely makes things easier for cyclists, maybe not for city workers. Is it the best solution, or just the most do-able?

By Rain Noe - December 17, 2019

To make things more convenient for cyclists, in Denmark they have these tilted trash cans next to bike paths:

If we zoom in and lighten the photo, we can get a better look at the mounting bracket:

I was surprised to see the nut; I'd thought there might be a tool-less locking handle there, so that the city workers could lower the can for emptying, but I suppose there are cost constraints.

Giving it further thought, I guess the container can never get truly full. And while this is great UX for cyclists, it might be inconvenient for the workers to empty, as they either have to carry a wrench or empty the can at an angle.

Hmm--since they're already using existing cans, might it have been better to leave the can flat, and add some sort of directional lid? Or is this the best (or easiest, or cheapest, or quickest) way to achieve this result?

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Michael Smith

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My first thought was how many cyclists are riding along with rubbish in their hands? Is it that common that the bins need to be changed to suit them?

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Troy Zeuske

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Looks like there's a handle to open the entire outer cage and remove the trash can no?

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  You got it! What we aren't seeing in the above image is that this can is actually missing it's handle. Here is what it is supposed to look like.
  
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Nathan D.

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That bin's not even big enough to hold more than one cyclist.

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  #nailedit
  
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Donald Jones

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Yeah.................................noooooooo!

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Dale Mason

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Bad design and worse execution -lets start over and identify the problem first

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Rain Noe

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.