Philadelphia is adding another unique touch to it’s waste recovery program. Last week we saw Philly’s recycling trucks wrapped in colorful graphics – and now, Inhabitat shares the news that the city is rolling out over 500 solar powered, compacting garbage cans. The bins can hold about eight times as much waste as a normal garbage can, and are estimated to save the city close to 12 million dollars over the next 10 years.
[via Inhabitat]
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Solar panels rule. They should be on everything.
I was thinking this and wondered where silicon comes from, turns out the Earth’s crust is 28% silicon. We’ll never run out of the stuff! Yay!
May 29th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I am sure this kind of solar powered trash can will gets popular.There are more and more solar gadgets now.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Something I dont like about this. The solar bit is great, but it works better on sunny days – also hot. Compacting trash for longer means less regular emptying? So you have more trash, more flies, more smell etc and all on a hot sunny day. Bad Idea if its just to save money by emptying them 8 time less frequent.
May 31st, 2009 at 1:15 am