Rodgau, a commuter town of around 47,000 southeast of Frankfurt, tried a small, cheap fix for a mundane problem: overflowing public bins. Since 2017 solar-powered compacting bins at busy squares like Puiseauxplatz crush litter to a fraction of its volume and email the utility when they're actually full, turning a fixed weekly round into a demand-triggered one, roughly €5,000 a bin against the cost of extra collection trips.

The atlas documents 1 project in Rodgau: 1 with a documented success. The entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (1 entry) — and links its sources.

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Outcome: 1 succeeded — Evidence: 1 official

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Rodgau, Germany.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/rodgau/ (last verified 2026-08-28). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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