San Francisco installing sensors on trash cans to clean dirty streets - Business Insider

San Francisco installing sensors on trash cans to clean dirty streets - Business Insider

• San Francisco is installing sensors on 1,000 trash bins in an effort to curb littering and illegal dumping.
• The city's downtown neighborhoods are filled with needles and garbage, creating conditions that many have compared to the world's poorest slums.
• The sensors help optimize waste collection by steering city officials in the direction of trash cans that are overflowing.

...San Francisco's streets are notoriously dirty.
In neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, Chinatown, and Mission District, it's common to find garbage and human feces scattered along the sidewalk. 
On the filthiest street in San Francisco, passersby can encounter an outdoor drug market with piles of poop and used heroin needles..."
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