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 ...

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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 ...

Waste Management of Florida recently installed an order of 24 solar-powered waste and recycling compactors throughout area beaches and marinas in Collier County, Florida, the Naples Daily News reports ...

Knoxville officials say the transition from bins lining Knoxville streets to nine compactors located throughout downtown will take over a year.

Downtown Knoxville could look and smell different once the city replaces 700 garbage and recycling carts, or "toters," lining downtown streets with as few as 10 large compactors, based on advice in a ...