Putting identification marks on waste carts

[Sam Leon]

I have a property at the end of a dead end street.

We have three waste carts, recycle cart is blue, yard waste cart green, regular trash cart black.

On the dead end we have my SFH rental, a triplex (which I have a contract on), a five building compound along the river, and two other SFHs. The triplex and the compound have a bunch more waste carts.

Everyone roll their carts on the street pavement edge twice a week, the garbage truck backs into the street and stops.  The workers would then roll the carts to the truck, empty it and leave a cluster of carts in the middle of the culdesac and leave.  The residents would then sort out which cart belongs to them.  Calls were made to the sanitation dept of the city, the waste collection contractor, no improvement.  My tenant has lost their cart twice now.

So the next approach is to mark, label the carts.  It is a high end neighborhood so putting a skull on the lids would probably be frown upon.  Ideas?  Stickers with the door numbers may come off after several weeks of daily rain, spray painting?

[Beth L.]

@Sam Leon We had the same thing happen at our vacation rental in FL. They kept getting stolen, because we purchased the nice big ones. So we bought some stencils at Lowe's and neatly spray painted the house number and street name on all sides of the trash can. It wasn't stolen again!