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 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 ...

A Sheepshead Bay legislator insists that high-tech, solar-powered trash compactors will solve the neighborhood’s litter problem — and claims he’ll pay to have them installed — even though the city ...

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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 a ...