Guilia Conte walks through downtown Ashland near the Oregon Shakespeare Festival campus on Friday, past one of 11 new trash cans. The cans, which cost $4,783 each, feature a solar panel on top, a ...

Timon Balloo, James Beard-nominated chef at Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill, uses a galvanized garbage can to do his smoking. “I was inspired during the SoBe Wine & Food Festival last year,” he says. “I ...

Downtown Ashland’s new curbside trash cans feature eye-catching designs, trash compactors inside and a solar panel on top to power things. They also come with a bit of sticker shock, at $4,783 each.