Living With Bears
City and Borough of Juneau
bears@ci.juneau.ak.us
Build Your Own Garbage Storage Unit
These links are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute recommendation or endorsement by CBJ or its employees.
If you do not have the luxury of keeping your garbage cans in a garage or shed or other fully-enclosed sturdy structure, here are some ideas for how to build an enclosure for your cans and a pdf print out sample:
Minimum of 5/8 inch plywood; 2 x 4 construction; use screws instead of nails.
Heavy duty hinges and latches strong enough that they cannot be pried open by claws.
No seams that claws can get into (use metal flashing to cover seams).
Secured so it can't be tipped.
If you can get into it without using your hands-by jumping on it, kicking it, using your shoulders-then it isn't bear resistant.
Publication - "Tips on Garbage Storage" (pdf)
One side contains tips, the other side contains drawings of how to build a bear-resistant container.
