Using bungee cords to keep your trash cart lid shut seems like a quick and easy fix for wind or neighborhood pests, but it poses serious safety risks to you, your family, and sanitation workers and can damage collection equipment.  We started Trash Lockers after we had black bears getting into our trash carts during the middle of the day.  We needed to find an alternative to bungee cords because I had a severe eye injury from a bungee cord a couple of years before the bears came visiting.  Two things my ophthalmologist (eye surgeon) said he and his colleagues do not allow in their homes because of the eye injuries: bungee cords and BB guns!!