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 ...

"Big Bellies" trash compactors have been installed at 36th and Walnut streets and outside Wawa at 38th and Spruce streets. "Big Bellies" aren't easily filled - at least when it comes to trash.

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 ...

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 ...

A Manhattan building porter whose hand was crushed and nearly severed in a defective trash compactor won a $14.7 million jury verdict — but he’d still trade in the money to regain the use of his ...