Mountain View reacts to proposed rates for bear-resistant garbage cans

Solid Waste Services says a pilot program they launched two years ago in Government Hill, in response to a family of bears rummaging through garbage cans in the neighborhood, is working.
They deployed bear-resistant garbage cans – bins with a lock on it to keep the bears out.
“We wanted to be proactive and get ahead of that and have a positive interaction with communities,” Birgitta Kyttle, customer services manager with Solid Waste Services said.
Kyttle said right now, there a