Why Doesn't Asheville Provide 'bear-proof' Trash Cans?

Wochit, Asheville Citizen-Times
Sat, 04/21/2018 - 3:05pm

A reader in East Asheville has a real problem with bears getting into trash and wonders why the city doesn't provide "bear-proof" trash cans.

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