It's time to take out the trash — trash cans, that is. After a two-year stint in the Castro, five Bigbelly trash cans are set to be removed from the neighborhood this week. The "smart waste" ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- In an effort to curb dirty streets in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, Supervisor Matt Haney announced on Monday the installation of 68 new "smart" trash cans in the ...

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RALEIGH, NC--(Marketwired - July 16, 2014) - WasteZero, the leading provider of municipal solid waste reduction programs and supplies in the U.S., announced today that it has been selected as the ...

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 ...

If you had to devise a product designed to succeed in this unique climate, it might be one that makes an eco-friendly, alternative-energy-powered, carbon-reducing, American-made, ...

A garbage-gobbling trash can that compacts street litter using solar energy has become a hit in cities across the nation, but the Big Apple‘s honchos just aren’t interested. The administration that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city is testing a $4,500 trash can that is able to sense when it's full and automatically compact the garbage inside using solar power. The can — called the BigBelly — was tried in Chinatown ...