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Despite COVID-19 and the resulting travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders, Pismo Beach has actually been busier than usual throughout the pandemic. The excess of visitors combined with an increased reliance on takeout food orders and the completion of Pismo s pier plaza, according to city staff, have created a citywide trash problem. One of the big things that we saw was that restaurants moved to a takeout-only model, and they didn t have trash facilities, Public Works Director Ben Fine said at the Jan. 19 Pismo Beach City Council meeting. And so when you look at the amount of trash generated by the takeout food versus the number of cans that we had, there was an imbalance. There was much more trash than we re capable of really collecting and storing between pickups.