Emptying a Smart Bin takes about 45 seconds. One sanitation worker unlocks the ruddy orange container with a swipe of his hand, using a keycard tucked into his glove. A door at the front of the bin ...

New York City has been big on bins lately. The Department of Sanitation piloted locked communal receptacles in Brooklyn and Manhattan and is paying McKinsey $4 million to study how the city might ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New smart compost bins are online at 10 Staten Island locations as part of an overall city plan to clean up city streets and reduce its rat problem, according to a Department of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. —The North Shore of Staten Island will be a focus of an expanded, city-run composting program. City officials will be sighting 250 new “smart” composting bins around the five ...

WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C. has been rolling out a new way to get rid of your food waste in an environmentally friendly way, introducing more than 30 Smart Bins that are accessible 24/7 through a ...

A composting toilet is set to improve the community life of a Taunton allotment site. Members of Whitmore Allotments gathered on Sunday, June 22, to mark the official opening of the ...