Smart Solar Waste Bins
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Stadtwerke Rodgau put a closed, solar-powered compacting bin - the ECOnTOP, made in the Netherlands and sold in Germany by German-EcoTec - on the Puiseauxplatz in the Nieder-Roden district, where residents and council members had complained about overflowing bins, scattered litter, vermin and smell. Its inner container takes up to 840 litres against a conventional bin's roughly 50 litres, and it reads its own fill level by ultrasound, counts what is thrown in, measures the press pressure and sends the readings to the utility by email or app.
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Before the bin arrived, the utility had already doubled the emptying rhythm at the Puiseauxplatz without, in its own words, any actual success, and went looking for another answer in 2016. Stadtwerke Rodgau's own verdict in November 2021 is that its experience with the ECOnTOPs has been consistently good.
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The utility publishes the failure mode as readily as the result: used pizza boxes get pressed into the flap so hard that the carton jams inside and the system reports itself full. What has not survived is everything else. The figures this entry once carried - a fall from two or three emptyings a week to about one every six weeks, and a per-bin price - came from a federal project database entry, a trade-press article and the utility's own news page. The database entry's URL now serves an unrelated page and has been removed here, the trade-press article returns 404, and the utility's page answers only through a web archive. A small pilot can outlive its own evidence.
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the ECOnTOP, made in the Netherlands and sold in Germany by German-EcoTec
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on the Puiseauxplatz in the Nieder-Roden district, where residents and council members had complained about overflowing bins, scattered litter, vermin and smell
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Its inner container takes up to 840 litres against a conventional bin's roughly 50 litres
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reads its own fill level by ultrasound, counts what is thrown in, measures the press pressure and sends the readings to the utility by email or app
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the utility had already doubled the emptying rhythm at the Puiseauxplatz without, in its own words, any actual success, and went looking for another answer in 2016
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Stadtwerke Rodgau's own verdict in November 2021 is that its experience with the ECOnTOPs has been consistently good
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used pizza boxes get pressed into the flap so hard that the carton jams inside and the system reports itself full
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the trade-press article returns 404
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- Operator
- Stadtwerke Rodgau
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- utility
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- utility
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4 source dossiers
Stadtwerke Rodgau — 'Intelligente Solar-Papierkörbe mit Abfallpresse' (operator presentation)
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src-658d0be96f720eeb- Publisher
- Name not classified · smarte-region-hessen.de
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- pdf · language not classified
- Published
- 2021-11-01
- Updated
- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-28
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-28
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Stadtwerke Rodgau's own slide deck, dated 01.11.2021 on every page: the Puiseauxplatz complaints ("überfüllte Abfalleimer", "Streumüll", "Ungeziefer und Gestank"), "die Verdoppelung des Leerungsrhythmus dort ohne tatsächlichen Erfolg" and the search for alternatives "im Jahr 2016"; "Der Innenbehälter des ECOnTOP kann sogar bis zu 840 Liter Abfall aufnehmen" against "ca. 50 Liter" for a conventional bin; fill level "durch Ultraschallmessung, Zählung der Einwürfe und Messung des Pressdrucks", sent "als E-Mail bzw. über die App"; and the candid conclusion that experience is "durchweg gut" but that pizza cartons jam the flap and trigger a false full signal.
German-EcoTec — ECOnTOP / Mr. Fill product page (vendor)
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src-bb961e8eea2d1057- Publisher
- Name not classified · german-ecotec.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-28
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- 2026-08-28
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Open the recorded source note
Vendor product page, undated: "Mr. Fill wird in den Niederlanden hergestellt... und wird in Deutschland exklusiv von German-EcoTec vertrieben." It describes the current Mr. Fill Ultra generation, which compacts "mit bis zu 1 : 5" — a different ratio from the one implied by the 2021 Rodgau figures, so it is cited here only for who makes and sells the line, not for the specification of the bins Rodgau installed.
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ZfK – Zeitung für kommunale Wirtschaft (press, 2017)
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- Name not classified · zfk.de
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2017-05-23
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-28
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- 2026-08-28
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note
Trade-press report of the launch; the date comes from the publisher's own permalink. The URL now returns 404, so its content could not be re-read. It is kept because the entry's start year rests on it and a silent deletion would hide that.
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Stadtwerke Rodgau – 'PUSH ME DOWN' (operator)
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src-0b705bb4cd836811- Publisher
- Name not classified · web.archive.org
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-28
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-28
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note
The utility's own news page on the bin. The live URL now returns 404; this archived capture could not be read from the editing environment, where the web archive is unreachable. No statement in this entry rests on it.
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Known limits of this passport
- Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
- Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
- A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
- The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart Solar Waste Bins” — Rodgau, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/rodgau-solar-bin/ (last verified 2026-08-28). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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