I tested six smart trash cans over the course of a few weeks and analyzed them based on scent containment, design and more to ...

The City of Raleigh has seen a major reduction in costs for trash collection since they’ve begun placing smart garbage cans – referred to as “Big Belly cans” – throughout the City’s downtown area. The ...

Whether you’re working full-time from home or just prefer having your own office space in the house, a home office can be a hotbed of creativity and productivity. And in the interests of creativity ...

Every once in a while, a technological innovation so advanced comes along that we, as a society, might as well just take a break from trying to invent anything else for a few years. It’s like, what’s ...

Kitchen odors don't always come from a lack of cleaning. A smarter trash setup can quietly reduce smells and make everyday ...

Before the first plastic water bottle or paper napkin gets tossed into a smart garbage can, brimming with artificial intelligence, it needs some data. Raleigh, N.C., is exploring the use of smart ...

The data revolution is coming—and it’s coming to even the least glamorous, smelliest civic necessity: the streetside garbage bin. A handful of cities around the globe have deployed “smart” trash bins, ...

These trash bins located at Canton and Ervay streets were photographed on June 11, 2025. They are part of a pilot program to assess whether smart trash bins can make city sanitation more efficient.

The smart trash cans aren’t going away, at least not yet. That’s the message in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood amid concerns that the bins might be removed after the grant used to lease them ...

WESTFIELD — Department of Public Works Acting Director Francis Cain recently visited Westfield Middle School with a pair of the new “smart“ Bigbelly compacting trash and recycling cans that will soon ...