The driving goal behind automation was to reduce the number of workers needed to pick up refuse. Worker safety was a distant second reason. Because refuse service is mandatory within the old city limits of Anchorage.  SWS can force customers to use any cans they want.  Government Hill is under SWS / Muni rules , while the other 80 percent of Anchorage can take or leave refuse service any time they want .  Tell those 80 percent they have to use bear resistant carts and they'll simply quit service .  The point being that with so few willing to use bear resistant carts----if for no other reason than having to lock and unlock them every time they want to place refuse inside or being charged for forgetting to unlock them on collection day----bear resistant cans will have next to no impact on bears eating refuse.   I'm not knocking you for trying , but just saying getting Anchorage as a community to use them won't ever happen. Just as recycling is failing as well , but for other reasons  .