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PATERSON — Alex Soto walked right past one of Paterson’s new $4,700 solar-powered sidewalk trash compactors on 10th Avenue last Thursday afternoon and instead dumped his empty juice bottle in a ...

Knoxville officials say the transition from bins lining Knoxville streets to nine compactors located throughout downtown will take over a year.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knoxville is moving forward with a plan to replace trash carts with compactors downtown, thanks to a $75,000 donation from the Downtown Knoxville Alliance. According to city ...

Downtown Knoxville could look and smell different once the city replaces 700 garbage and recycling carts, or "toters," lining downtown streets with as few as 10 large compactors, based on advice in a ...

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 ...