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NBC30 News - Hartford, Connecticut:
Make Garbage More Eco-Friendly (March, 2008)WGN9 News - Chicago, IL:
BigBelly Trash Compactor (November, 2007)KNBC (NBC), Ventura, CA:
Ventura Brings in the BigBelly (September, 2007)NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO's:
Solar Compactors Make Mincemeat of Trash (July, 2007)CLTV News - Chicago, IL:
BigBelly Trash Compactor (May, 2007)WJZ News, Baltimore, MD:
The BigBelly Moves into Baltimore (May, 2007)The Discovery Channel:
Beyond Tomorrow (October, 2006)
News
Naples, FL - Naples Daily News:
FGCU President Talks About (April, 2008)Boston, MA - The Heights:
BigBelly Trash Cans Compact on Campus (April, 2008)CNET News.com:
BigBelly Solar Compactor Now Squeezes Recycling (April, 2008)Boston, MA - The Environmental News Network:
BigBelly Solar Trash Receptacle (April, 2008)Franklin, MA - The Milford Daily News:
With A Little Help From The Sun (April, 2008)Chicago, IL - Rogers-park.com:
Rogers Park Goes Green for Earth Day (April, 2008)Boston, MA - Boston Red Sox:
Red Sox To Implement New Environmentally-Sustainable Practices at Fenway Park (April, 2008)Bainbridge Island, WA - Kitsap Sun:
Business Spotlight: Greening Up the Garbage Can (April, 2008)Boston, MA - NECN:
BigBelly Goes to Fenway Park (April, 2008)Technovelgy.com:
BigBelly Solar Compactor vs. WALL-E Robot (April, 2008)Palm Springs, CA - The Desert Sun:
City of Palm Springs Receives Grants to Enhance Air Quality In Area (April, 2008)Concord. MA - Businesswire:
World’s Only Solar-Powered Compaction System Designed in SolidWorks (March, 2008)Munster, IL - Post Tribune:
Workshop Generates Recycling Ideas (March, 2008)Dallas, TX- Pegasus News:
Fair Park to “Go Green” by Using Solar Trash Compactors (March, 2008)Pittsburgh, PA - Duquesne University Times:
Going Green: Environmentally Conscious Campus (February, 2008)Cambridge, MA - The MIT Enterprise Forum:
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Announces 2008 International Innovation Fair (February, 2008)Philadelphia, PA - The Daily Pennsylvanian:
Garbage can 'Big Belly' compacts trash with solar power (February, 2008)Reno, NV - Reno Gazette-Journal:
Solar can gobbles large loads of trash (January, 2008)Pasadena, CA - California Institute of Technology's:
Is CalTech Getting a BigBelly? (January, 2008)Wichita, KS - The Wichita Eagle:
BigBelly ready to take in trash (January, 2008)New York, NY - Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary:
Clean Tech to Smash Trash (January, 2008)Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Springwise - Your Daily Fix of Entrepreneurial Ideas:
Top 10 Eco & Sustainability Business Ideas for 2007 (January, 2008)Boston, MA - The Boston Globe:
Solar Trash Compactors Added (January, 2008)CNET News - Green Tech Blog - News and Analysis on Green Technology:
BigBelly Solar Trash Compactor Gets Sleeker and Smarter (January, 2008)Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
Brooklyn Navy Yard Is Undergoing a Historic Transformation (January, 2008)Bournemouth, England - The Times:
Council approves of talking rubbish (November, 2007)New Bedford, MA - South Coast TODAY:
High-tech trash bins help clean up city (November, 2007)San Diego, CA - NBC San Diego:
Cardiff by the Sea brings in the BigBelly... (November, 2007)Visalia, CA - The Fresno Bee:
Visalia will muscle up on sunshine (October, 2007)York, ME - Maine's Seacoast Online News:
York Beach gets solar-powered compactors... (August, 2007)Victoria, BC, Canada - Douglas Magazine:
Smashing Trash with Sunlight... (August, 2007)Needham, MA - BigBelly Solar:
Boston Restaurant Partners with City with Donation of a BigBelly (July, 2007)Waltham, MA - Design News "Accelerating Engineering Innovation":
BigBelly Solar-Powered Trash Can Hits the Streets (July, 2007)Tampa, FL - Channel 10 News:
Solar powered trash compactor may save money... (July, 2007)Attleboro, MA - Attleboro Sun Chronicle:
BigBelly Hungry for Garbage (July, 2007)White Plains, NY - White Plains Times:
Solar Trash Compactors at Kensico Plaza QUADRUPLES Container Capacity... (July, 2007)Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz Sentinel:
Capitola tackles beach trash with solar bins... (June, 2007)London, England - BBC News:
Solar bin in anti-rubbish drive... (June, 2007)Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Emirates Today:
This belly's big enough to cope with your mountains of waste... (June, 2007)Chicago, IL - Chicago Sun-Times:
Putting a crunch on garbage costs... (May, 2007)San Antonio, TX - San Antonio Express News:
Compactor uses energy from sun... (May, 2007)Palm Springs, CA - Palm Springs Press-Enterprise:
Palm Springs' solar-powered trash compactors raise awareness... (May, 2007)San Antonio, TX - San Antonio City Government:
City installs BigBellies at Alamo Plaza (May, 2007)Brooklyn, NY - The Brooklyn Paper:
The Greening of Trash... (April, 2007)NEWSWEEK Magazine:
Mayors Take the Lead (April, 2007)BUSINESSWEEK.com:
Meet the Solar-Powered Trash Can (April, 2007)Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz Sentinel:
Solar-powered trash compactors installed (March, 2007)Denver, CO - US Forest Service News:
Bighorn National Forest Earns EPA Recognition (March, 2007)Lynn, MA - The Lynn Daily Item:
Marblehead native’s invention utilizes solar power to compact trash (March, 2007)NAIOP.com:
Trash Crushed by Sun (March, 2007)Cambridge, MA - Harvard Green Campus Initiative:
Solar Trash Compactor Conserves Energy (March, 2007)Hyannis, MA - Sustain Cape Cod:
Big Belly Bins (March, 2007)Baltimore, MD - Maryland Daily Record:
Trash cans go high-tech (February, 2007)Barnstable, MA - The Cape Codder:
21st century trash disposal (February, 2007)Barnstable, MA - The Barnstable Patriot:
Solar trash bins keep 4Cs green (February, 2007)Baltimore, MD - Office of the Mayor:
Mayor Dixon, Board of Estimates Approves New 'Clean and Green' Technology for Baltimore (January, 2007)Boston, MA - The Boston Globe:
Globe Magazine: Best of the New 2007 (January, 2007)Shanghai, China - Sina English:
Interview: Jim Poss, inventor of the BigBelly (January, 2007)East Hartford, CT - East Hartford Gazette:
Solar-powered trash can will pay for itself (January, 2007)Boston, MA - Boston Business Journal's bizjournals.com:
Tech Hub Talk (December, 2006)BUSINESSWEEK.com:
Dreaming of a Green (Tech) Christmas (December, 2006)TIME Magazine:
Bringing Sunshine to Trash... (December 3, 2006) (December, 2006)SignOnSanDiego.com:
Compacting trash with help of sun (November, 2006)Santa Cruz, CA - Waste Age:
Crunch Time (November, 2006)INC Magazine:
Your Dumpster called. It said to send someone over (November, 2006)Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz Sentinel:
New solar-powered trash cans put the squeeze on downtown mess (October, 2006)Gloucester, MA - Gloucester Daily Times:
'Big Belly' hits the Boulevard (September, 2006)New York, NY - New York Daily Press:
BigBelly puts the Squeeze on Garbage (August, 2006)Boston, MA - The Boston Globe:
Solar-power compactors press the mess in Boston (July, 2006)Long Island, NY - Long Island Power Authority Newsletter:
Richard Kessel and Audrey Pheffer dedicate solar powered trash compactors (June, 2006)Sustainable Industries Magazine:
Four Cleantech Companies to Watch (May, 2006)The International Assocaition of Amusement Parks & Attractions:
Good Green Fun (May, 2006)New York, NY - The New York Times:
In the Belly of the Beast (July, 2005)New York, NY - The New York Times:
Amagansett Beach to Test Solar-Powered Garbage Can (May, 2005)New York, NY - WIRED Magazine:
BigBelly Has Appetite for Trash (March, 2005)New York, NY - MSNBC:
Big Apple Tests 'BigBelly' Trash Can (March, 2005)