Happily spotted these fancy trash and recycling bins on Fourth and Liberty streets in early May, and as far as I am aware, are the city’s first official sidewalk recycling option. Besides recycling, the trash can features a solar-powered trash compactor. The same bins are frequently seen in Manhattan’s busy parks as they won’t overflow like a conventional trash can or require emptying as often. Anyone have more details about these bins or know why they suddenly showed up?
[ UPDATE! 9:45 a.m.] Louisville Downtown Management District informed us via Facebook that these bins are a Waste Management pilot program and the LDMD is currently exploring funding options to bring them to other parts of downtown. ]
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Branden founded Broken Sidewalk in 2008 while practicing architecture in Louisville. He continued the site for seven years while living in New York City, returning to Louisville in 2016. Branden is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and has covered architecture, design, and urbanism for The Architect's Newspaper, Designers & Books, Inhabitat, and the American Institute of Architects.
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I hope this project spreads across downtown and they find a way to make funding sustainable. Other places to put these could be around Papa John’s Cardinal stadium, the Yum center, and U of L campus.
I would like to see these at busy bus stops. I am so tired of seeing overflowing trash cans at bus stops!
A group of us Mechanical Engineering students are trying to design one of these as a club project. I think it might be out of our reach financially because of the solar panel 🙂