This. I moved from Philly to Wilmington and the city provides large, heavy duty, lidded recycling and garage bins for every residence. The bins don't blow over. They don't break and the lids don't fall off.

Yea, ol' Wilma is a smaller city and it would be costly for the city of Philadelphia to provide every residential building these bins, but it is working for us. There is no trash all over the street UNLESS a neighbor is not using a city provided garbage bin and is choosing to use their own open garbage can (I am looking a you, person down the street!). The loose recycling IS a problem.

I have bike commuted in Honolulu, too. It wasn't great.... Philly is certainly up there as one of the worst places to bike. Based on my personal experience, Jersey City and NYC are worse. Jersey City has few bike lanes, the roads are shit, and drivers frequently blow through stops.

America was designed for cars, unfortunately.