Solar Powered Trash Compactor
One of the latest inventions on waste management is a Solar Powered Trash compator. The aim of this product is to reduce the frequency of garbage collection. The Santa Cruz Public works Director Mark Dettle are keen into acquiring a few units.
The solar-powered, cordless design of the BigBelly Cordless Compaction System allows the units to be deployed virtually anywhere, eliminating the costly trenching/wiring required for conventional plug-in compaction technology. This self-powered capability provides clients with great flexibility to locate units where trash collection is a challenge, thus dramatically improving service levels, reducing or eliminating unsightly overflowing trash bins, and reducing collection trips.
Using such compation units, the city government could save on time, fuel, and truck costs. Public places usually in downtown areas where people eat have the tendency to have overflowing garbage bins. This is definitely not good for the environment.
The city currently empties the trashcans on Pacific Avenue twice a day, but Dettle said sometimes “even that’s not enough.” The BigBelly, on the other hand, survived four days without being cleared out once, Dettle said. If installed, the cans would likely be emptied once every other day.
Now that’s a great improvement.
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