Bigbelly Blog: Beyond the Bin

Bigbelly has been challenging the status quo and changing public space waste management for the past 16 years - taking great leaps and strides since our humble beginnings in 2003. We took a step back when analyzing last year’s system-wide data and reflected on all the change that communities have been through in that time.

Adoption of smart waste management is only one element of the many long-term sustainable changes that have surfaced. We are proud to be a longstanding partner with so many cities, campuses, and companies who are changing the status quo. A sincere THANK YOU to all of our customers and their communities. We would not be where we are today without your adoption of, trust in, and success with our world leading system.

We’re thrilled to recognize our customers who are making a difference in sustainability and environmental protection through their use of Bigbelly's smart waste management solution. We are excited to unveil the Top 25 Highest Recycling & Compost Diversion Ratios from Smart City Deployments ranking of 2018.

In our third year of analyzing Bigbelly global system data, we continue to be inspired by our customer successes. We are excited to unveil the Top 25 Most Efficient Smart City Deployments Using the Bigbelly Smart Waste & Recycling System for 2018. These are communities that have embraced smart waste management in their public domain with the Bigbelly system and using the system in the most optimized way.

Bigbelly continues to be humbled as an icon of Smart City and IoT movements with our solution and story starting far before 'smart city' was a coined term! We're honored to keep up the momentum as thought leaders in the telecom hosting space by delivering a multi-function city infrastructure for hosting additional technologies. Read on for an industry article highlighting the realities of 5G technology deployment in Smart Cities where Bigbelly's SVP of Information Communications Technology, Alex Gamota, is cited:

The results are in! Nearly seven thousand Cambridge, MA residents voted to decide how to spend the city's capital project budget for FY 2020. The goal? Fund projects that residents felt would improve the community for the greater public! We are excited that a proposed project to 'Clean Up Cambridge' by installing more Bigbelly smart waste and recycling systems to create cleaner public spaces won the community's vote!

Located just outside of Philadelphia where Bigbelly has been used for smarter public space waste management for a decade now, we're excited to have the Bryn Mawr and Lower Merion Township communities onboard and changing their public space waste and recycling operations with Bigbelly! 

Leaders in civic tech join forces to streamline technology platforms for cities including Cambridge, MA

NEEDHAM, MA / FEBRUARY 27, 2019 -- Bigbelly, the leading provider of multi-purpose waste infrastructure, announces the launch of its CLEAN API (application program interface), which allows developers to integrate with its world leading smart waste platform. SeeClickFix, the original and leading platform for non-emergency repair requests and data, is the first to integrate with the CLEAN API.

Another Bay Area community is embracing the Bigbelly system! The North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco, California announced their deployment of the Bigbelly system last Friday with it's community-focused ribbon cutting event. The Mayor's office Fix-It Team is continuing to change the status quo for waste management and the North Beach Citizens organization jumped on the opportunity!

Kudos to Orinda, California for adopting and embracing smarter waste management with the Bigbelly system! We are thrilled to see this community's success in transforming was management operations in their parks and downtown area. Read on for an article published on Lamorinda Weekly after a recent City Council meeting:

WILSON, NC — Trash collection in historic downtown Wilson has gotten an upgrade thanks to smart technology, and officials are hoping to eventually roll out the Bigbelly brand garbage and recycling bins elsewhere in the city.