Nobody looks for a trash bin until they need one. And if there aren’t any, chances are good that their refuse will soon be blowing in the wind.

There may soon be a lot of trash blowing along parts of Mill St., which runs through the heart of the Distillery District, when all those people who throng the area in nice weather can’t find a receptacle for their garbage.

Trevor McLeod emailed to say he moved into the popular Distillery District last year and noticed a troubling absence of bins in which pedestrians can deposit their trash.

“I quickly discovered that there is a huge lack of waste receptacles in most of the area, leading to lots of garbage being strewn about,” McLeod said.

“There are no waste bins along Mill St. between Cherry St. and Bayview Ave., or even along the new 514 Cherry streetcar stops down Cherry St.”

I emailed the waste management contact at the city and they said it’s on the list to install later this year, but that is not quick enough. Places to properly dispose of waste should’ve been installed before residents moved in, not after.

McLeod asked us to “light a fire under someone’s ass to get this completed ASAP. It’s an otherwise beautiful area without all the garbage from thousands of new residents.”

We went there on a blustery Thursday and saw enough bins along the west side of Cherry, south of Eastern Ave., to conclude that it is well-served.

But Mill St? Not so much. The stretch of Mill that runs east from Cherry to Bayview didn’t have one bin along the sidewalks. Even the stretch of Mill from Cherry to Parliament St. — the area where most visitors go — has only a few receptacles.

McLeod is right; given the concentration of tourists and all the new condos that have gone up in the area over the last few years, lots of bins should have been installed by now.

STATUS: Ryan Lanyon, who’s in charge of street furniture, emailed to say that they believe the west side of Cherry has sufficient containers. We won’t argue with that. He went on to say Astral Out of Home, which has a contract to supply the city with receptacles, “will expedite the installation of bins at the transit stops on the east side of Cherry in early May. The installation of a few more bins on Mill will be expedited by Astral at the same time.”

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