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.

New York magazine named Philly’s BigBelly Solar trashcans a favorite recent urban invention in its current issue on Urban Global Design, in which our smart solar trash cans stand proudly alongside ...

The city controller's office is questioning the value of solar trash compactors installed downtown last summer for $3,700 a pop. Controller Alan Butkovitz says his office monitored BigBelly compactor ...

After some back-and-forth regarding aesthetic and sanitation issues, Chestnut Hill has finally installed its Big Belly solar compactors. The large covered cans seen in neighborhoods around Center City ...

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 ...

Caterpillar's CB-300 E-Series compactors are fitted with a sliding operator's station as standard equipment. The station has three operating positions and uses two, 1-inch, solid-steel rails. Among ...

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 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 ...

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 ...