A Cleaner Environment
The BigBelly Solar intelligent waste & recycling collection system keeps your environment cleaner in several ways: lowering unnecessary fuel usage and vehicle emissions, reducing litter, and improving recycling.
Reduced collection trips means less fuel and lower emissions
By presenting collection personnel with real-time data on every location and maximizing capacity with on-site compaction, the BigBelly System reduces trash and recycling collection vehicle trips. At an average of 3 MPG, trash collection vehicles are among the most fuel inefficient ever designed. 70-80+% reductions in collection trips yield comparable savings in fuel usage and greenhouse gas emissions.
A better return than hybrid fleets
Various communities are evaluating converting waste collection fleets to hybrids. These programs add approximately $250,000 of hybrid conversion costs to a $250,000 vehicle, all to generate 20-30% increases in fuel efficiency. For fleets that perform critical services such as fire, ambulance or bus fleets,cutbacks in trips are not possible. For these fleets, the focus is and should be on the “Better Mile”, using fuel substitution or alternative technologies such as electric vehicles and hybrids.
However, where fuel usage can be reduced through innovative applications of technology, particularly with waste fleets where 70-80+% efficiency improvements have been consistently proven through application of the BigBelly System, this approach produces a significantly greater bang for the buck for those looking to reduce fuel usage and pollution from fleets.
The cleanest gallon of fuel is the gallon you don’t burn at all. This is the “Nega-Mile ™”
Enclosed Design = Less Litter
BigBelly Solar waste and recycling stations feature an enclosed design that reduces odors and keeps litter neatly contained – off our streets and out of our parks, waterways and beaches. The enclosed design also cuts down on pest issues by preventing access to their food sources – when the “food” goes away, so do the pests.
Improved Recycling
Customer experience has demonstrated that the BigBelly Solar waste and recycling stations encourage proper separation of trash and recyclable materials, reducing cross-contamination and increasing the value of the recyclables. Increased recycling helps divert material from landfills and saves on dumping related costs.
BigBelly Solar: Cleaner and Greener
The BigBelly System delivers all of these benefits using 100% solar energy – a free, abundant and non-polluting renewable resource. Customers have been extremely pleased with the enthusiastic response from the users of their BigBelly Systems.
