Thread: All Right - Let's Talk Trash Compactors?

I've been looking at getting a trash compactor.

They've been on my mind lately, fascinating things, good for the environment, packs and compresses it all for you and serves it up already bagged for you to take out.

Anyone have one of these utterly fascinating pieces of equipment?

How Cool is this:

The trash compactor is a tool that allows you to decrease the impact of your waste on landfills. Trash you place inside the trash compactor is crushed with a metal ram into small and manageable pieces. These pieces are disposed of in a trash compactor bag. A trash compactor is made up out of very few parts. It has the metal ram which crushes the garbage, the bin where you place the garbage and the switch where turn it on.

So,,, basically with a trash compactor we can pack more trash into our landfills, in a smaller amount of space.

Use the money for something sensible .......... like another shaving brush .........

That's what I told the wife...our ongoing battle over using a tiny foot press garbage can or a bag hanging off the cupboard...I'm losing the discussion, they do look like they do something, so figured I'd ask if anyone has one here...

They had those things back in the late 60's early 70's. Nastiness.

Smashing trash under your cabinet, IMO.

Joke then and a joke now. Just me.

Ask her how many shoes fit into the one she wants :<0) Then buy one. Your going to lose this argument anyway right ?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

They had those things back in the late 60's early 70's. Nastiness.

Smashing trash under your cabinet, IMO.

Joke then and a joke now. Just me.

We had one when I was in high school,, we had to buy special bags for it.

strikes me that your rubbish will be in the house for longer and weigh more when you take it to the big bin, besides dont rubbish trucks have compactors anyway.

When I used to have the luxury of time I would sort out our compostables, recyclables and normal rubbish, we produced very little actual rubbish when i did that, though we now seem to produce a lot more having a 9 year old instead of a baby and no composting as i am not at home to do it.

We had one in our last house.

We both swore an oath to the garbage gods the next house would not have one.

Old One:
Used normal white tall kitchen bags.
It was 22 years old and still worked.

We spent more time cleaning the thing than spent on the stove, fridge, microwave and dishwasher combined.

It was prone to getting stuff on top of the compacting plate which required a tear down.

PITA Never again Never

Up here they switched to clear bags for trash so the truck operator could inspect the waste streams generated from individual households for proper sorting etc.
Don't think a trash compactor, which we used to have in our old house, would fly with the new order.
I see bags wth red tags on them left curb side at houses that don't recycle properly after the trucks go by on garbage day. Owners have to re-sort to have the trash picked up the next week. Compacting it all into a neat cube might be frowned on, not sure.
Personally, the best bang for our buck was a good sink garbarator. The kind that grind bones.
Thanks to that, and proper recycle sorting, our garbage output for a family of 5 adults is half a can of actual garbage weekly. 4 blue bins, and rarely, the compost bin.