Councilmember Tom LaBonge, Larchmont Village Business Improvement District President Tom Kneafsey, and BigBelly Solar Waste and Recycling will hold a press conference on Wednesday November 6 at 8:30am, to introduce and install the Larchmont Village BID’s first BigBelly Solar waste and recycling containers.
Councilmember LaBonge has donated $60,000 worth of BigBelly Solar’s trash and recycling containers to Larchmont Boulevard. The first five of 15 containers will be installed as a pilot program at the press conference. Powered by solar panels, the trash and recycling containers feature compactors which will dramatically increase the amount of trash each container can hold.
The containers, tested and popular in other Los Angeles BIDs, feature an electronic alert system wherein each container’s sensors send a message to the maintenance company that it needs to be emptied once the level of waste in the container reaches a certain level. The BigBelly Solar containers also mean the Boulevard will have a large scale recycling program for the first time. Once the first five containers have been tested and the remaining 10 arrive on Larchmont, the BID’s trash pick-up needs will be cut in half – saving approximately $25,000 a year. This money will be put back into the maintenance and beautification of the Larchmont Village BID.
The picture above is of a BigBelly solar trash container. There will also be recycling containers. They will be wrapped in a green color to match the color of the clock on Larchmont and will have a watercolor of Larchmont Village on the side panel.
Click on this link and learn a little more about BigBelly Solar and their commitment to creating a recycling infrastructure that condenses trash, reduces the load and monitors when the bins are full and need to be picked up. Pretty cool…
Larchmont BID Press Conference Big Belly Solar Waste and Recycling Program Wednesday, November 6, 2013 | 8:30am 200 North Larchmont Boulevard
