Scarborough residents will soon have a new defence against the city’s peskiest scavengers -- raccoons.

Beginning Wednesday, Scarborough residents will receive the first fleet of the city’s new green bins.

Last year, Toronto’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee approved a new green bin model that is designed to keep raccoons – or, “raccoon nation” as Mayor John Tory once called it – out of Toronto trash bins.

A Rehrig Pacific Co. manufacturing plant began production on the new green bins earlier this month.

The bins are twice the size of the current ones and are equipped with lockable lids and metal latches.

The new design allows the bins to be opened by collection vehicles but are resistant to the notoriously crafty critters.

Pat Barrett, a spokesperson for the city, told CTV Toronto that the bin deliveries are scheduled to begin Thursday and will continue for approximately six months throughout the Scarborough area.

“Scarborough will take about six months to finish,” Barrett said in an email. “So by this coming fall, deliveries will begin in the Etobicoke community. It is expected that will finish at the end of 2016.”

Barrett said that once Etobicoke is finished, deliveries will begin in North York in Jan. 2017.

“[North York] will take until approximately April – May and then the rest of the City of Toronto will receive the bins,” Barrett said.

“Bins will be city-wide by the end of 2017.”

Last April, the city put together a video that showed one of the newly designed green bins getting a raccoon-resistant test. In the video, a raccoon can be seen trying to break into one of the bins by clawing at the lid. A second raccoon appears and tries its claws at the design, but neither raccoon appear to remove the metal-latched lid.

The pair end up knocking the bin over but the lid remains locked. The raccoon duo finally gives up and scamper away.

The city’s new 10-second promo video, released last week, shows one of the new green bins being wheeled to a curb while a person dressed in a raccoon costume sits nearby looking discouraged.

“We are ready, we are armed and we are motivated to show that we cannot be defeated by these critters,” Mayor Tory said last April as he revealed the bin design.

The city anticipates that there will be approximately 500,000 raccoon-proof green bins delivered by the end of the rollout.

The mayor is expected to hold an official launch sometime on Thursday.