Do you need a Big Belly?
Urban trash cans are often overflowing, despite being emptied multiple times/day (up to 10 in New York City!). While "reduce" is the best solution to our growing mountain of trash, Sea Horse Power has a nifty practical idea for urban waste. It's the Big Belly, a solar-powered compacting trash can! Using energy from the sun, it automatically crushes the deposited waste into two smaller cubes, ready for collection.
Watch the Big Belly in action
This is a great idea because denser urban living is often more sustainable than spread-out or rural options, and hence a method for controlling trash is welcome. Jim Poss, one of the inventors, is a professor at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, among other talents.
Watch the Big Belly in action
This is a great idea because denser urban living is often more sustainable than spread-out or rural options, and hence a method for controlling trash is welcome. Jim Poss, one of the inventors, is a professor at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, among other talents.
2 Comments:
Very interesting. In Barcelona, they've got underground containers, with a small part that pokes up. So it reduces the footprint and clutter above. Aha, here's the article: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006976.html
By BEG, at 10:10 PM
Ah, those look neat. Thanks for the reference.
I was amazed in visiting Asia how rare public trash cans are there, as well as public littering. We seem to be operating on the assumption that people litter because they look around and don't see a trash can. Hence the solution is to provide a trash can within a line of sight in nearly every public place. Perhaps this assumption holds for Americans, but it seems not to for Asians!
By Kim, at 2:00 PM
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