“They pick the lock, they dump the whole can on the street and then as the sort through the things they want while the garbage is either on the sidewalk or out on the street,” said Public Works Acting Director Alaric Degrafinried.

Yo Alaric, just thinking out loud here but it’s almost as if material conditions for many under capitalism are so bad that they feel compelled to go digging through the rubbish of others in hope of finding food or sellable goods.

Here in Portland we have the opposite. The trash cans downtown let you put in cans so they can be easily removed. Unfortunately people still dump out the trash sometimes when they are searching for cans, but I much prefer our way. And of course bigger picture it is awful that anyone is reduced to that level of existence.

Looks like peeler!