Roman Mars

This is Roman Mars.

I'm in beautiful San Francisco, California.

But if I'm here during the daytime and I have a little bit of time, I very often go to Tony's Slice House in North Beach and get a slice of pizza and soda and a paper cup.

There's no trash can where I'm standing right now.

I don't know if there's one in the next block, but I kind of expect a trash can every major intersection.

And it got me thinking.

Who determines how frequent there should be a trash can?

And like, who determines the placement?

Are they placed like strategically?

Is there an algorithm or a formula for these things?

Because when I see the sort of dearth of trash cans in the city and I'm walking around with my, you know, food waste, I think, well, this is why the city is so dirty.

Like it has a lot of litter.

San Francisco is fantastic, and anyone who fearmongers about it doesn't know it, and they should just f*** off.

But it does have litter.

And I think, well, maybe it has so much litter because it has so few trash cans.

And so I really want to figure this out.

Like, who determines the trash cans?

Even how they get picked up, how are they maintained, how are they designed?

I just really want to figure this out.

Or I want this to be figured out for me.