The city’s first Smart Cans, solar-powered trash compactors that tell sanitation employees when they’re ready to be emptied, arrived on sidewalks this week, Mayor Catherine E. Pugh announced Monday. The first trash cans are being placed at Washington Boulevard, in Ridgely’s Delight, Cherry Hill and Westport, and along Light, Charles, and Hanover streets in South Baltimore. “Baltimore needs to get smarter about trash, and these Smart Cans are a big part of the solution,” Pugh said in a statement.
The city plans to use the South Baltimore program as a pilot to inform how best to roll out the Smart Cans to other business districts and bus stops “in subsequent phases,” the mayor said.
“I’m thankful to our partners in the Casino Local Development Council and the Maryland Port Administration for providing the funding for these cans, and I’m thrilled for our neighbors and businesses that will benefit from them,” Pugh said.
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