Pasadena to add more solar-energy trash cans

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Pasadena is about to get more fancy trash cans.

The City Council approved a work order late Monday night to place 40 self-compacting solar-energy trash cans throughout the city, in addition to the 12 already on the streets.

The city is joining Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Boston and Philadelphia in using the trash cans, called BigBelly Solar Compactors, according to the vendor's website.

The 40 receptacles will cost $146,550.

The trash bins, which first started appearing on Pasadena street corners in 2007, can compact 200 gallons of trash into one 60-gallon "neat" bag, said Gabriel Silva, the environmental programs manager with the city's Department of Public Works.

Silva said the city will save $61,400 annually in reduced labor and fuel because of the trash cans.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tr...story?track=rss

[NickD 203]

Weight is still the same, and shipping is charged by weight more so than volume. Is all the pollution drifting over from China affecting the brains of the leaders in California? Or were they born without brains?

I fill it's terrible whenever we buy anything, have more trash than the usable product, wasn't always that way. But that is the problem.