Originally Posted by
david58
The scary part for me is when it is dark - no reflectors on the cans, our city uses dark green for the trash. Particularly when there is oncoming traffic, they can pop up out of the dark all of a sudden.
You do have a decent headlight (a few hundred lumens will do it), do you not? If so, these things should not be "popping out of the dark" without giving you plenty of time to avoid them, no matter how dark they are unless you're going 30+ mph.