Bigbelly Blog: Beyond the Bin

As reported by the Denver Post, Lakewood's "community-led effort helps minimize environmental impact" with their deployment of the Bigbelly smart waste and recycling system across key public parks and spaces. Lakewood's Mayor unveiled the environmentally-friendly system during a ribbon cutting earlier this month. This community's deployment marks the largest adoption of smart waste management and measurable recycling in the state of Colorado. Read on for more as published in the Denver Post.

Slough Borough Council has become the latest UK authority to adopt Bigbelly’s smart waste collection technology after it agreed to roll out 18 smart stations as part of its aim to clean up the streets.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Lakewood, CO / January 30, 2018 - Lakewood to announce Bigbelly smart waste and recycling system with ribbon cutting ceremony at the Bear Creek Greenbelt

Lakewood residents have a large appetite for recycling, and Lakewood is answering with Bigbelly, an innovative way for park visitors to dispose of recyclable items and their trash while in the parks.

Beginning this month, 71 Bigbelly bins will be installed in key parks such as William Hayden Park on Green Mountain, the Bear Creek Greenbelt and Bear Creek Lake Park, making it the largest deployment of Bigbelly bins in both the state and the metro area. The project also expands the Department of Community Resources’ commitment to sustainability and offers recycling options while residents are out enjoying Colorado’s great outdoors.

Navy Pier, University of Illinois at Chicago, Cedar Point Amusement Park adopt and expand the Bigbelly system;  Bigbelly received $5.7 million contract with the Illinois Public Higher Education Cooperative

Nambucca Shire Council in the coastal region of New South Wales, Australia first started using the Bigbelly smart, solar-compacting waste station back in December 2015. Since then, the council’s fleet has continued to grow to its current total of 40 stations – currently one of the largest council fleets in Australia!

Just in time for the crowds of the world-renowned Cannes Film Festival and their accompanying waste, the Bigbelly system was deployed as a trial in early 2016. Since then, it has been helping keep the Cannes, France boardwalk clean for visitors from near and far. Most recently, the City of Cannes expanded their deployment with Bigbelly’s smart waste and recycling system along the boardwalk and pedestrian-heavy streetscapes in the city center and along the coast.

Needham, Mass. / January 8, 2018 – Bigbelly, the world leading Smart City Solutions Provider specializing in smart waste and recycling, today announced significant company growth in 2017. Deployed across all 50 states, the Canadian provinces, and over 50 countries, Bigbelly continues to modernize and transform waste management - demonstrated by customers embracing 13,709,539 compactions, 2,456,062 collections, and 18,304,538 IoT connections last year.

Did you know that Bigbelly is helping to keep Santiago’s Parque Metropolitano clean, green, and connected?  Bigbelly's Distribution Partner in Chile, Green Cargo, has worked closely with the City to deploy the world leading smart waste and recycling system in one of the most iconic public spaces in the country.