Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sierra Space TCPS machine (Credit: Sierra Space) NASA will test a state-of-the-art trash compactor aboard the International Space ...

The National Public Radio (NPR) recently reported that the Chicago Park District has installed 25 solar-powered trash compactors to keep the beaches clean and safe. The BigBelly units look like ...

FREMONT, Calif. — Police say a homeless man sleeping inside a garbage bin survived two compaction cycles after the bin was emptied into a trash truck. Fremont police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said ...

MIRAMARMIRAMAR — New city recycling policies and trash compaction methods have extended by eight years the projected life of the Miramar landfill, San Diego’s only active dump. Mayor Kevin Faulconer ...

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 ...

April 1, 2008 Able to compact gallons of rubbish with a single gulp, the BigBelly solar trash compactor cuts public garbage collection emissions by up to 80 percent and operates for an entire day on ...