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 ...

City of Napa residents may have noticed the bulky pairs of solar-powered, high-tech trash cans that showed up around the city, and especially downtown, roughly six months ago. They’re known as ...

You see them on the streets all over downtown Chicago--“Bigbelly” compacting garbage cans. On their face, they are almost an impossibly simple idea: solar-powered trash cans which smash the trash, ...

This summer, we were thrilled to tell you 275 new trash cans were on their way to Philly. You would think new trash cans wouldn’t be so exciting, but when your only option for trying to keep the world ...

Cory Simo hears complaints almost daily about overflowing trash cans in Lancaster city’s downtown. Simo, the city’s operations manager, is certain a new type of waste bin will fix that. The city ...