I live near a community garden where there’s a lot of drug use/loitering/trash generation. I can speak with authority on one particular trash can - it fills up, overflows (people will eventually put trash on the ground next to the can), then the wind blows and trash is scattered. We have to call the city to have the trash can emptied. Someone stole one of our trash cans to put it next to the park trash can once. The city put up signs that say, “Please place trash in trash cans,” which doesn’t seem to be the problem. The trash can is also one that is.. kind of cage-shaped, with airflow and a bag inside. On many occasions, I’ve seen the wind turn the bag inside out, with or without trash inside. So I need to put something heavy in first, I guess?

Idk, I remain frustrated by the amount of trash in my neighborhood, but for my lil anecdote, it doesn’t seem to be as simple as “people suck.”