The design of a solar-powered trash compactor for city streets used several plastic-molding issues to make it practical. The original compactor made by BigBelly Solar in Needham, Mass., worked well ...

No matter what you do, your trash bin always seems to overflow. You wish there were an easier way to manage it; most of us do. Between daily meals, packaging, and leftovers, kitchen waste piles up ...

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 ...

It may be big and ugly, but a giant garbage squasher is just what county officials say they need. Osceola County commissioners want to extend the life of the Southport landfill by buying a $200,000 ...

When the Head of the Hooch Rowing regatta comes to Ross's Landing this weekend, it will bring with it 10,000 competitors, spectators, volunteers, paper cups, plastic bottles, napkins, and other refuse ...

Compacting trash can be expensive when it is done by the acre, as the Washington County Board of Commissioners showed last week when it approved an emergency procurement of $436,108.51 to repair one ...

A new trash compactor was put to use Monday at Eddy County’s Sandpoint Landfill after the county agreed to pay $728,000 to purchase the equipment in response to increased need. Eddy County’s Board of ...