BearSaver: The Broadest Catalog — With One Product Worth Double-Checking

BearSaver is a trademarked product brand of Compumeric Engineering, Inc., a metal fabrication company founded in 1989 in Ontario, California. Compumeric started as a general job-shop fabricator before developing its own proprietary product lines, and today operates two trademarked brands: BearSaver (bear-resistant products) and Securr (general security-hardened waste receptacles).

BearSaver is currently listed as a PlayCore brand on PlayCore's own site, confirming the parent-company relationship our database already notes. We could not, however, independently verify a specific acquisition date — one search summary suggested February 2023, but tracing that date led to PlayCore's acquisition of a different brand entirely (Victor Stanley), not BearSaver or Compumeric. We'd recommend treating "a PlayCore brand" as the verified fact, without attaching a specific year to it.

BearSaver's own "About Us" page claims "over 25 years" of steel fabrication combined with wildlife-biologist collaboration on its bear-resistant line, with "nearly two years" of R&D before its first product launched. No independent employee count or revenue figures were found anywhere — this is a company-stated timeline, not an independently verified one.

BearSaver's current catalog is organized into three groups: Trash & Recycling Enclosures (HA, CE, BE, and Hid-A-Bag series, plus a residential "Bearier" line), Cart Garages, and Food Storage Lockers — roughly "75+ models" by the company's own count, with public retail pricing we found ranging from about $1,140 to $3,913 depending on model.

One finding worth your direct attention: BearSaver's front-load dumpster line — including the 3-yard model formerly listed here (IGBC #5369) — is discontinued, so we removed it from our database rather than list a product you can't actually buy. A direct fetch of the product page returned a 404, and the page's own indexed title reads "PRODUCT DISCONTINUED AND NO LONGER AVAILABLE – Heavy Duty Pitch Top Dumpsters." No dumpster of any size currently appears in BearSaver's live shop-all catalog. If you need dumpster-scale capacity, call BearSaver directly (800-851-3887) to ask whether a legacy/special order is still possible.

Also worth knowing: BearSaver's Hid-A-Bag models are manufactured under license from Haul-All Equipment Systems, an Alberta company that holds the trademark on the Hid-A-Bag design — so that specific line isn't a wholly original BearSaver design, though the certification and manufacturing are still genuinely BearSaver's.

We found no CPSC recalls, lawsuits, or documented public controversies involving BearSaver or Compumeric Engineering.

One item worth including in a genuinely thorough review, in fairness and without editorializing: BearSaver's own blog includes a post titled "Protecting Your Community: BearSaver's People-Resistant Trash Cans," marketing a locking-hasp option on its CE Series specifically as "people-resistant" against people "seeking refuge or resources" in public trash cans. We found no news coverage or public backlash specifically directed at BearSaver over this — so this isn't a documented controversy in the sense of outside criticism — but it's a real, citable description from the company's own marketing that reflects directly on how one of its products is positioned, and we think a genuinely deep review should mention it rather than omit it.

Two installs are independently corroborated by outside journalism, not just BearSaver's own marketing: Denali National Park installed 33 triple-bin BearSaver recycling containers as part of a zero-landfill initiative starting in 2016 (covered by the Anchorage Daily News), and the City of Aspen, Colorado purchased several hundred BearSaver metal cans at roughly $750 per unit installed, per an Aspen Times article that also quotes a BearSaver sales director describing an 18-month grizzly-testing R&D process at the West Yellowstone facility.

Other customer claims — Yosemite (300+ food storage lockers), Acadia, Glacier Bay, and Everglades — currently trace only to BearSaver's own blog, without independent news confirmation we could find. We're listing them as company-sourced claims, not verified facts, and recommend treating them that way until confirmed elsewhere.

One correction relevant if you're comparing brands: a widely-covered 2024 New Jersey DEP program distributing roughly 3,000 bear-resistant residential cans to six towns is a Toter LLC contract, not BearSaver — an easy mix-up we wanted to head off directly, especially since we cover both manufacturers.