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Watch this raccoon get inside a raccoon-proof green bin in less than 30 seconds

A video of a raccoon getting inside of a raccoon-resistant green bin in less than 30 seconds is all the proof Toronto needs that this is a raccoons' city we humans are all just living in it.

Green bins were pitched to Torontonians in 2015 as raccoon-resistant

Torontonian Graeme Boyce captured this raccoon turning the handle of his green bin to break in. (Graeme Boyce)

A video of a raccoon getting inside of a raccoon-resistant green bin in less than 30 seconds is all the proof Toronto needs that this is a raccoons' city we humans are all just living in it.

Graeme Boyce, who lives in the city's Beach neighborhood on Kingston Road and Queen Street East,filmed the raccoon getting inside of the bin in front of his house, using its nimble paws to expertly turn the handle.

"I thought that's pretty brazen. It's broad daylight, a busy street, and I thought there's no way he can open that bin anyway ... it's raccoon-proof.A few seconds later there he was opening the handle and helping himself to dinner," he said.

Boycesaid he had threetoboggans stacked on top of the bin and that the raccoon flung them off and onto the driveway to get atthe bin.

The ease with which the raccoon performs this task strongly suggests that this is not its first time getting inside the bin.

"What Icouldn't believe is he could actually with his hind legs, hang on the side of the bin, reach down and grab a bag that was way down at the bottom ... quite incredible, I have to say," saidBoyce.

"He's obviously done it before and he's quite goodat it."

Raccoon-resistant?

With a tighter lid and a stiffer handle, the green bins were pitched to Torontonians in 2015 as a raccoon-resistant solution to the city's critter problem.

The new bins, manufactured by the Rehrig Pacific Company, focused on increasing size, durability, stability during storms and high winds and locks to keep rodents and raccoons out.

For a moment, it seemed as if the city had won the battle.

However, a couple of years after the rollout of the bins, it quickly became apparent that the raccoons were the oneswinning the war.

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One Scarborough resident toldCBCToronto that his green bin was knocked over and opened on the first night he put it out.

Despite those concerns, at the time city officials maintained there was no conclusive proof that raccoons can open the new bins.

Thanks to Boyce, now there is.

"We aretoldthat this bin is raccoon-proof ... and here's a raccoon opening it up like its nothing. I was kind of giggling in the background."

The city has previously told CBC Toronto that it investigates each complaint it gets about the green bins and that more often than not, the issue is a faulty bin, such as one where a screw has come loose in the latch.

But Boyce says his green bin is "practically new" and otherwise works just fine.

"He just gave it a good flick of the wrist...and loand behold, he was in."