Let's Talk Trash

The aluminum trash can, overflowing with litter, ubiquitous on every New York street corner is being reimagined in Downtown Brooklyn. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership will install this month two innovative trash cans designed to make the neighborhood more sustainable – an interactive unit called an eCan at Albee Square and a solar-powered Bigbelly compactor and recycling unit at the corner of Fulton and Smith Streets.

“Bigbellys have already proven to be hugely successful in New Yo