The design of a solar-powered trash compactor for city streets used several plastic-molding issues to make it practical. The original compactor made by BigBelly Solar in Needham, Mass., worked well ...

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If you had to devise a product designed to succeed in this unique climate, it might be one that makes an eco-friendly, alternative-energy-powered, carbon-reducing, American-made, ...

Panorama City, California-based Epax Systems Inc. offers an electric version of the Ropax Mobile Compactor machine, designed ...

There aren’t many full kitchen renovations in the works these days — those megaprojects of granite and stainless steel for only $100,000 or so. But there are niche projects that deliver major changes, ...

Jose Humareda holds his non-working right arm which was severly damaged while caught in a trash compactor. Matthew McDermott A Manhattan building porter whose hand was crushed and nearly severed in a ...