The plastic totes will not protect the contents from rodents, squirrels or raccoons.  They will gnaw through the plastic in seconds.  And good luck keeping them out. 

I had a raccoon doing B & E on very cold nights.  He ended up sleeping in the attic. 

I hired a pest control company to escort him out (but he had already skipped).  He then “raccoon-proofed” the attic.  I paid them about $800.00 to do that, and that consisted of copious amounts of chicken wire and staples.

A couple of months later a horrid smell was coming from the attic.  I called the pest control company that “raccoon-proofed” the attic and asked them to remove the corpse.  They informed me that they had a fixed price of $599.00 to remove carcasses.  No discount for failed raccoon-proofing.

I had my gardener remove the corpse.  And then I had him remove all the attic insulation.  And then new insulation was installed.  Removal and replacing the insulation was about $2,000.00.

Apparently the raccoon-proofing was not effective for intrusion, but was effective for exiting. 

As an aside, the raccoon problem on Long Island has been blamed on noise abatement laws.  About 40 years ago, municipalities on Long Island banned galvanized steel trash cans because they made too much noise during the trash collection process. 

This meant plastic trash cans.  And plastic trash cans meant a steady supply of food for the raccoons. And not raccoons are all over the place.

I hope your plastic totes work.  But for anything that seems like it might be edible for small creatures, you probably want to use steel.

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