#garbage cans

A narrow residential alley in Uptown Minneapolis, lined with city-issued recycling and trash bins outside detached garages. The City of Minneapolis operates one of the nation’s oldest organized alley waste collection systems, dating back to the early 20th century when service routes were first formalized for the city’s grid of north-south residential blocks. Today, the alleys continue to serve as vital service corridors, reflecting both the urban infrastructure and the century-old planning model that still defines much of Minneapolis’s residential layout.

Susan Stillman (b.1956) - Red Trees, Garbage Cans. Acrylic on canvas.

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"GARBAGE RECEPTACLES IN "THE WARD"," Toronto Star. August 12, 1912. Page 6. --- The above photograph shows that the so-called "poor and ignorant" among Toronto's population are fully alive to the calls of modern sanitary methods. Some time ago The Star published a photograph of a street in "the Ward" showing long rows of the new fashioned closed garbage cans waiting the arrival of the garbage man. This photograph shows a small shop in the same quarter of Toronto where these cans are stocked and sold extensively. Women are examining one of the cans and assuring themselves that the top fits tightly, preventing the dreaded house-fly from getting in and out. While "the ward" is buying and using large numbers of these cans, thereby doing much to prevent the fly pest and spread of disease, in the better quarters of the city where people with money and a supposed higher grade of education reside the old fashioned open can or box is still frequently seen.