Boston-based entrepeneur Jim Poss, founder of Seahorse Power, has put something incredibly useful - and incredibly cheap - on the streets of our cities. It’s called the BigBelly, and it’s a solar powered trash compactor. Thrilling, right?Right. These compactors can handle up to five times the waste of normal trash bins, they require zero energy off the grid to run, and they provide enormous infrastructural relief in the form of reduced maintenance and cleanup. This relief translates into carbon emissions reduction, with all those trucks that don’t need to come and all those trips to the landfill that don’t need to be made.
It’s a small but important step towards cleaning up a dirty problem. BigBellies have started making inroads in municipalities that are either forward-thinking or just very, very pragmatic, like Cape Cod, Baltimore, Queens – and, naturally, Boston.
Minimizing waste where possible, and recycling it where not, is hardly a radical idea. As any New Englander could tell you, it’s just common sense. Isn’t it nice that cutting edge technology is finally catching up?
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