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The Tenderloin Community Benefit District is scrambling after it lost funding for the 76 high-end solar-powered trash bins that dot the neighborhood.

In 2020, the CBD, a nonprofit run by local community members dedicated to improving the neighborhood, removed dozens of city trash bins from within its borders. Those cans, it says, were often rifled through, spreading more garbage on the street. In their place, the organization rented and installed 76 solar-powered, tamper-resistant, trash-compacting cans made by Bigbelly, a Massachusetts-based company whose bins are popular with many CBDs across the city.

The new bins were paid for with grants f

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