With proper equipment selection, waste stream analysis, and operational adjustments, companies can lower hauling frequency, control expenses, and improve overall efficiency.

Waste Management Inc. (WM), Houston, has announced the completion of its new SmartEnergy compactor. According to the company, the compactor is designed to reduce electricity consumption by as much as ...

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 ...

Less than a month after announcing a <a href="http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/05/18/daily23-Solar-trash-compactor-firm-BigBelly-raises-32M.html" target ...

A broken trash compactor at Kitsap County's Olympic View Transfer Station has halted trash collection around the county and left the station brimming with mounds of garbage it's struggling to get out ...

Over spring break, the Department of Facilities Management updated how people on campus can get rid of their trash, installing 60 new BigBelly solar compactors across campus, said Grounds ...

A new gray and black BigBelly Solar Compactor arrived on Dec. 18 in front of the Sharpe Refectory. The compactor outside the Ratty is the first such receptacle on campus, which was installed as a ...

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 ...

The growing volumes of waste, coupled with the increasing costs of waste hauling, have forced the various organizations in ...

GERMANTOWN (WITI) -- Crews responded to a fire at a Waste Management facility near 124th and Donges Bay Road in Germantown late Wednesday night, June 11th. Upon arrival, crews discovered that the fire ...

In a public-private partnership that crosses county lines, the City of Parkland has introduced nine Waste Management solar powered trash compactors and separate recycling receptacles into city parks ...

In a pandemic dominated by swab tests, personal protective equipment and experimental treatments, one can imagine the vast quantity of waste created by the medical response to COVID-19. One Southern ...