At least they’re popular with Clark Asks readers — although probably not in the way intended.
They are a series of trash cans in Vancouver wrapped in brightly colored placards offering themselves up as potential advertising sites through a firm calling itself Trash Can Ads.
A question about the cans received the largest number of votes this month as part of Clark Asks, The Columbian’s reader-guided reporting project. But that curiosity might focus less on the cans’ potential usefulness to advertisers as their status as an eyesore for everybody else.
“What is up with those hideous new garbage cans all over Mill Plain near Chkalov?” asked Darcy Hoffman of Vancouver. ” Advertising for advertising? Who authorized this bad idea?”
