On our usual Sunday morning walk, we passed this solar-powered compactor can – fancy English for trash can – and initially mistook it for…a vending machine? a newspaper stand? It turns out that the city of Pasadena, as are many cities nationwide, is replacing some of its old trash cans with these solar-powered compactors made by BigBelly Solar.
The compactor is powered by a solar panel on top. The entire container holds up to 32 gallons of compacted trash, and, get this! newer models can send text messages to a central server to reduce the number of trash pickups. The fewer the trash pickups, the lower the long-term costs. Cool. Though I do wonder how much each compactor costs…why does every green solution have to be so expensive?
Hope your week is off to a good start.
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very cool.
paz