Canadian Bear Proof Garbage Bins – Are Real Tough!
Canadian Bear Proof Garbage Bins are definitely a niche product I haven’t come across before.
But I guess there’s not many carnivourous mammals in Australia that may want to chomp your head off. We only have lots of poisonous snakes and spiders that may want to kill you instead. No seriously, you would have to literally step on one before one of these poisonous critters would even think of wanting to bite you.
Hence I haven’t come across a rubbish bin that’s reinforced so much that it resembles the Oscar The Grouch version of Fort Knox!
My oldies spotted some Canadian Bear Proof Garbage Bins on a recent trip to Canada.
These reinforced garbage receptacle devices look a bit unusual to those not from North America.
It seems nothing could destroy one of these big metal beasts. Look how solid they are! I wish the Bear Proof Garbage bin engineers had built some of the various forms of transport I’ve used around the world! These bins look more roadworthy and seem way tougher!
The Motive for Bear Proof Bins
The reason these bins are reinforced are to stop Canadian Bears from pillaging the rubbish for residual snacks not devoured by often overweight tourists when they feel like a midnight snack. These food groups would likely be a most unsuitable diet for the Bears, just like it is for humans ;-P.
I guess if you had an easy source of food on tap, why bother hunting for salmon all day? I would take the easy option every time. Bears are pretty smart and won’t muck around when it comes to food.
It makes me wonder though – will the Canadian Bears revert to eating overweight tourists because they can’t score a midnight munchie from a Bear Proof Rubbish Bin?
Anyway, check out more at Wild Animals of the Canadian Rockies.
oooh! i never seen such like that before..i guess they’re afraid the bears might litter.. haha.. what an idea..
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They look pretty touch to me. 🙂
Too bad the bear cans were installed improperly.
A properly installed bear garbage can has an extended concrete pad under the garbage cans that extends well beyond the front of the cans.
The reason for this is when bears can’t get to the attractants inside the cans they want to push the cans over looking for another way in. With the extended concrete pad, the bear will actually stand on the extended concrete pad and therefore will need to push more than his own weight to topple a garbage can over.
I never saw these when I was in Canada but I can understand the motivation for installing them!