A Manhattan lawmaker is talking trash about the Big Apple. Councilman Ben Kallos wants the city to buy 1,000 solar-powered trash compactors, saying that’s the best way to deal with litter and rat ...

Watch out, rats, because a giant trash compactor is coming to downtown Olympia. The 30-yard contraption will be installed behind Big Whiskey Saloon at Fifth Avenue and Franklin Street by year’s end.

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 ...

From sister publication Design News comes this article on solar-powered trash compactor-cans. These cans are for use in public places, where trash cans have to eat a lot of trash, and honkin’ big ...

A new trash-compacting invention has garnered raves from resort owners, quizzical looks from city dwellers and the cold shoulder from big waste-management companies. BigBelly, a somewhat insatiable ...

I discovered a brand spanking new BigBelly Solar trash compactor on the way to my local coffee shop this morning. I was impressed. BigBelly Solar was founded nearly a decade ago in Newton, MA with the ...

"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.

Watch out, rats, because a giant trash compactor is coming to downtown Olympia. The 30-yard contraption will be installed behind the Big Whiskey Saloon at Fifth Avenue and Franklin Street by the end ...

Are 400 ad-bearing, solar-powered trash compactors in downtown Chicago headed for the trash heap? They would be if Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Charles Williams has his way. Testifying Tuesday ...

April 1, 2008 Able to compact gallons of rubbish with a single gulp, the BigBelly solar trash compactor cuts public garbage collection emissions by up to 80 percent and operates for an entire day on ...