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Don’t see the need for home trash compactors when the compact in a trash truck can crush with over 20 tons of force.
Those Poor Compactors...
What just makes twenty tons of garbage into another twenty tons of garbage...
What will be said about every trash compactor that gets listed, then...
An appliance that's long sat around unsold because of it long becoming obsolete...
To me, I get fat bags of garbage which I wonder how and why they grow so enormously horizontal when other than the few times my daughter is here and we throw more away, hardly anything gets thrown out at all...
Seen a few of these appliances go to obsolescence in my time, however, when the stinky trash sits around requiring deodorizing and the need for special bags...
Though wish my refuse which I mostly recycle, and are often just paper from torn and shredded junk mail somehow did not get as out of control in proportions stated above...
-- Dave
What just makes twenty tons of garbage into another twenty tons of garbage...
What will be said about every trash compactor that gets listed, then...
An appliance that's long sat around unsold because of it long becoming obsolete...
To me, I get fat bags of garbage which I wonder how and why they grow so enormously horizontal when other than the few times my daughter is here and we throw more away, hardly anything gets thrown out at all...
Seen a few of these appliances go to obsolescence in my time, however, when the stinky trash sits around requiring deodorizing and the need for special bags...
Though wish my refuse which I mostly recycle, and are often just paper from torn and shredded junk mail somehow did not get as out of control in proportions stated above...
-- Dave
Home kitchen, trash, compactor
I’ve had one in my kitchen since the mid 70s love it and now with recycling of other items which don’t go in the compactor we can go as long as one year without emptying the compactor so it eliminates all those trips to the trashcan on a weekly basis or more that many people do.
I do not use the special bags nor the deodorizer and it never stinks. You have to have common sense and not put garbage in it, but that’s what garbage disposal is for. I even bought the reusable plastic liner for the compactor about 45 years ago and I’m still using the same one
So every year it gets carried out to the big rolling trash bin that the county provides and I shake it out into the bin I bring it back into the house. I put a couple of layers of old newspaper in the bottom and put a date on the bottom of it so when I dump it out the next time, I can see if I made a year again or not.
I do not buy anything that gets thrown away immediately no plastic bags no plastic wrap no paper towels it’s just a waste of money and a bunch of stuff to carry home from the store that you don’t need.
Once a month, I wash a load of cleaning cloths in the calypso and I’m good for another month. That’s what I used to wipe up everything from kitchen counters to floors to cleaning the bathroom no reason to ever buy most cleaning products either. I would again never waste money on things like swiffers.
I’ve had one in my kitchen since the mid 70s love it and now with recycling of other items which don’t go in the compactor we can go as long as one year without emptying the compactor so it eliminates all those trips to the trashcan on a weekly basis or more that many people do.
I do not use the special bags nor the deodorizer and it never stinks. You have to have common sense and not put garbage in it, but that’s what garbage disposal is for. I even bought the reusable plastic liner for the compactor about 45 years ago and I’m still using the same one
So every year it gets carried out to the big rolling trash bin that the county provides and I shake it out into the bin I bring it back into the house. I put a couple of layers of old newspaper in the bottom and put a date on the bottom of it so when I dump it out the next time, I can see if I made a year again or not.
I do not buy anything that gets thrown away immediately no plastic bags no plastic wrap no paper towels it’s just a waste of money and a bunch of stuff to carry home from the store that you don’t need.
Once a month, I wash a load of cleaning cloths in the calypso and I’m good for another month. That’s what I used to wipe up everything from kitchen counters to floors to cleaning the bathroom no reason to ever buy most cleaning products either. I would again never waste money on things like swiffers.
There are some specific use cases (SOCRRA or similar not being among 'em) where compactors can be helpful (some places that require use of "tags" to be charged for pickup or have very restrictive can sizes) or when you need to use a transfer station (a nice compact brick rather than billowing bags of waste).
They kinda came out in 1970 which was about 10 years after home incinerators died off.
They kinda came out in 1970 which was about 10 years after home incinerators died off.
Trash truck capacity is rated in cubic yards-the more waste compacted per cubic yard the better-fewer trips for the truck. And less fuel use.
Compactors take 3 Cubic feet of trash, and make it into 1.5 cubic feet. They do have a use.
For a few years, I lived in a condo that had a genuine, original Whirlpool compactor. I went to the Tribles appliance parts store a few miles away and bought a package of bags for it. I was the only person on my court between two buildings to use my compactor. All others had these billowing piles of garbage bags and heaps of disposable diapers out on trash day. I am not saying that the diapers could have been dealt in any other way, but the sloppy garbage indicated that the people did not use their disposers either. We did not have recycling then, but a bag lasted me for months of junk mail, cans and bottles. If I put a capped glass bottle in, the motor driving the ram would strain as it revved then there would be a big bang when the bottle succumbed to the external forces. That was fun. It was also a great way to get rid of plastic half gallon milk cartons which would take up so much space in a trash bag. I enjoyed my compactor.
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Mike trash compactor compacts more than 20 to one in volume. I literally as I said before I go up to a year without emptying it and it’s really packed.
Reply number 6 hi Rex, what are you trying to say in your reply?
The heavily compacted trash that I put out once a year is far more compacted than the trash truck compacts it so I’m reducing the need for the number of trucks and fuel required when I put my compactedgarbage out occasionally.
John L
Mike trash compactor compacts more than 20 to one in volume. I literally as I said before I go up to a year without emptying it and it’s really packed.
Reply number 6 hi Rex, what are you trying to say in your reply?
The heavily compacted trash that I put out once a year is far more compacted than the trash truck compacts it so I’m reducing the need for the number of trucks and fuel required when I put my compactedgarbage out occasionally.
John L
The trash trucks in my home area are top load side loaders with the cart arm. The recip ram compactor is in the truck body. Trash nowadays may be compacted more than once enroute-than again at the landfill with sheep foot shell compacter vehicle that’s spread and compacts the waste even again. These vehicles can weigh over 250,000pounds. Oh yes-compacted at first if you have the household compactor. Really haven’t seen a home unit in many years. I did enjoy feeding boxes,furniture and bags of trash in a Marathon compactor in a Govt building I used to work in at VOA Wah DC plant. No compactors in the Greenville sites-front load dumpsters. They used to use incinerators. Those were in the process of being removed when I came to VOA Greenville. Worked in all three plants.
Our trash trucks are like that now, too...
A claw picks up the garbage can that's provided and only a driver is now needed, so the can is lifted and emptied with a claw and put back down again...
Our recycling trucks have I think certain compartments the different kinds of recycling is put in, there, too... I think only one driver is needed there, too... Though he lifts the can into a hopper, sorting from there...
The thing is people do like their trash compacted to make less bulky... Which is what I wish I could do...
On of the last good household compactors to improve upon others was the Genie Beast, which I haven't heard of or seen one for a long time..
Maybe never had never seen in person as much as seen in its own ads and appliance store advertising...
However, a google search has yielded a mostly commercial-looking thing, or maybe designed to be put in a utility room or a garage...
-- Dave
[this post was last edited: 5/7/2025-05:32]
A claw picks up the garbage can that's provided and only a driver is now needed, so the can is lifted and emptied with a claw and put back down again...
Our recycling trucks have I think certain compartments the different kinds of recycling is put in, there, too... I think only one driver is needed there, too... Though he lifts the can into a hopper, sorting from there...
The thing is people do like their trash compacted to make less bulky... Which is what I wish I could do...
On of the last good household compactors to improve upon others was the Genie Beast, which I haven't heard of or seen one for a long time..
Maybe never had never seen in person as much as seen in its own ads and appliance store advertising...
However, a google search has yielded a mostly commercial-looking thing, or maybe designed to be put in a utility room or a garage...
-- Dave
[this post was last edited: 5/7/2025-05:32]
