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$20,000 for a pilot trash can is pretty ridiculous, however. $20,000 was for a one off (well, each of the three custom designs cost about that much) garbage ca
by inferiorhuman 4y ago
$20,000 for a pilot trash can is pretty ridiculous, however.
$20,000 was for a one off (well, each of the three custom designs cost about that much) garbage can. The off-the-shelf models cost between $600 and $2,800 and the city budgeted no more than $3,000 per can.
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/for-a-trash-can-in-san-francisco/6702595.html https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/for-a-trash-can-in-san...
- woodruffw 4y agoNot to press this point too hard, but "no more than $3,000 per can" is still ridiculous. They're $175 apiece here[1]. I can understand spending $20,000 (or even $60,000) on the pilot designs. But TFA makes it sound like the city was billed $20,000 just to fabricate it. Edit: Updated the link to a better article. [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-04/new-york-s-next-trash-can-is-from-betterbin-winner-group-project https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-04/new-york-...
- inferiorhuman 4y agoThe VOA article seems to me to imply that the whole development cost was $20,000. It is proving to be a costly project. One of the trash cans under consideration cost more than $20,000 and took four years to make.