The National Public Radio (NPR) recently reported that the Chicago Park District has installed 25 solar-powered trash compactors to keep the beaches clean and safe. The BigBelly units look like ...

Solar-powered recycling-oriented trash compactors around the country will be using Raleigh-based WasteZero as a trash bag provider in a new, environmentally friendly partnership. Solar-powered ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The city is set to launch a pilot program that will bring smart solar-powered trash cans in an effort to keep Downtown Bakersfield looking clean for residents and visitors ...

"Big Bellies" trash compactors have been installed at 36th and Walnut streets and outside Wawa at 38th and Spruce streets. "Big Bellies" aren't easily filled - at least when it comes to trash.

PORT TOWNSEND — Trash disposal and recycling has just gone high tech with the installation of solar powered Big Belly units in high pedestrian traffic areas in Port Townsend. Civil Engineer Laura ...

The city of Allentown is using the power of the sun to keep its streets clean. The first of 250 so-called Big-Belly solar trash compactors was unveiled Wednesday at 12th and Hamilton streets, outside ...

In the summer months, Chicagoans flock to the city's beautiful Lake Michigan waterfront. Given the kinds of winters they have to put up with, you can understand why. But one of the drawbacks to a day ...

Just how ugly are the Big Belly solar trash compactors? Well, at a community meeting last night in Northwest Philadelphia the word “ugly” kept coming up as residents debated whether to accept 15 of ...

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