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Email updates Twitter Facebook RSS FeedsIt might not be the equivalent of a solar-powered sunlamp or a wind-powered ceiling fan, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard has just installed a solar-powered garbage can.
OK, it’s not really a garbage can, it’s a trash compactor, says its maker, Seahorse Power Company. But it certainly looks like a garbage can. And it is solar-powered.
“This is just one small part [of the effort] to reduce emissions and fuel consumption at the Navy Yard,” said Andrew Kimball, the Park Slope resident who runs the city-owned industrial park.
The $4,300 trash can, about the size of an non-powered mailbox, was installed at a ceremony (yes, a ceremony for a trash can!) on Tuesday. The “Big Belly Cordless Compaction System” is said to reduce trash volume by 70 percent and has already replaced conventional cans throughout Boston and Baltimore.
— Photos and story by Aaron Greenhood
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