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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A high-tech, solar-powered trash compactor used in national parks, on college campuses and in cities coast-to-coast, made its Cleveland debut this week on a bustling street corner.

The compactors, which were installed in late May, use a system that allows county parks and recreation workers to monitor trash levels online and sends workers a text message when the can is full.

The city installed 90 solar trash bins at $4,700 each. People need to step on a pedal to open them. A lament: You can't even tell it's a garbage can.

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 ...

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 ...

Don't call them trash cans, these waste disposers are so much more. ... DON'T CALL IT A TRASH CAN. >> THESE ARE BIG BELLY SOLAR POWER TRASH COMPACTORS, FIRST THEY'RE POWERED BY THE SUN.

Clark County's waste management contractor has partnered with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to install Southern Nevada's first solar-powered trash compactor. The compactor, at UNLV near its ...

EAST STROUDSBURG -- Trash compactors are one of the ways East Stroudsburg University manages trash on its campus in Monroe County. To students on the campus of ESU, they just look like normal ...

PATERSON — Alex Soto walked right past one of Paterson’s new $4,700 solar-powered sidewalk trash compactors on 10th Avenue last Thursday afternoon and instead dumped his empty juice bottle in ...

The city installed 90 solar trash bins at $4,700 each. People need to step on a pedal to open them. A lament: You can't even tell it's a garbage can.