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 ...

They seem to turn heads wherever they're installed: new solar-powered trash compactors that are meant to save time and energy. Orange County, Calif., received its first set Friday, when Waste ...

Trash might not be ecofriendly, but two big local groups say they've found a way to ease its environmental effects. Clark County's waste management contractor, Republic Services, partnered with the ...

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 ...

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 trash ...

In an effort to reduce trash overflows, litter and the frequency of trash collection in the French Quarter, New Orleans city officials announced a plan to install solar-powered trash compactors in the ...