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Are consumer trash compactors worth it?; Squeezing trash into one can
Topic Started: Nov 6 2011, 05:08 PM (3,020 Views)
Cobb
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Ok, so been living in an area with open dumpsters, a large commercial trash compactor to a place with garbage cans you got to pay to have dumped. My mother makes garbage :shake , I sear and like a big black bag a day. :hmm I fear we will need 7 large cans for our trash needs at our new place. :die

I was wondering if anyone has used or any experience with the residential trash compactors? I see them at teh appliance stores and sections of stores and we were wondering if they are worth it?

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Cobb
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iamgeo
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After reading your post I surfed on over to Amazon.com To have a look at Trash Compactors.
WOW! I did not realize they are so expensive. Reviews were mostly good for the few I read about. Then I went to Craigslist and found a few listings. Only one had a price, it was $50.
I think I would get a used one myself.
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Typically they are not worth it since most areas now impose and enforce a MASS LIMIT of 50 pounds (including the can) on trash.

you will usually hit or approach 50 pounds without compacting and anything not close is usually light enough for you to compact yourself.

IE "typically" not worth it for consumer trash.
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Tofuball
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It depends on the size of the vessel you plan to launch into the sun.
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i went through 2 garbage compactors in 12 years when i lived in my big house in the country. i could reduce my waste bulk by 75%.

that was before recycling was a big deal so i crushed bottles and cans, too, with the compactor.

as an appliance, i liked the trash compactor.
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In San Antonio they use the specialized trucks that pick up the specialized trash cans, which hold a lot of trash. Therefore, no weight limit.
Using a trash compactor would pose no problems.

I would be worried about the rotting food smell emanating from the compactor due to keeping the trash in the house longer in order to fill it to capacity.
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Cobb
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Its a private company vs the city. We would likely go used for it since its trash vs a washing machine, dish washer or stuff that would come in contact with food we would eat. They too use a big automatic truck dumping system, so thinking weight isnt an issue.

Myself, as a form of protest to my employer, I and others use to carry our trash to work. I would fill a walmart bag a day. I would put it in one of the many parking cans in the parking lot. If I had to park more than a thousand feet from the entrance that trash was emptied near my car on the ground. :lol

When I shop and its at walmart, I open my packages and toss out the excess packaging right away and leave it in the cart. My mother seems to like leaving stuff as is and waiting til we get home to gut it, then put that in a zip loc bag. :hmm

We use to burn trash at one time, but we are going to be in the city and cityified. So much for standing on the front porch smoking a marlboro and taking a leak first thing in the morning. :cheers
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So you are one of those disgusting type of people that leave your trash in the shopping cart.
What the hell is wrong with people today?
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iamgeo
Nov 6 2011, 07:02 PM
So you are one of those disgusting type of people that leave your trash in the shopping cart.
What the hell is wrong with people today?
You gave me an idea. :hmm How about I leave our garbage in a cart at the local wamart in a runaway cart? :thumb

Did I mention I push the cart up on the island near the parking end caps? :cheers

When I had my tacoma, if a cart was between me and a lamp or parking post, it went squish. :lol
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IT WAS YOU.
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my trash compactors had an aerosol can with a sanitizing deodorant (like ozium.) my compacted block of trash smelled like flowers. :wub:

also, you don't compact wet garbage. pack that in a plastic sack and take it out to your can every day. i was in the country and had a home sanitary treatment system/ septic tank so no vegetable peelings, grease, or fat ever went down the sink drains. what the dogs didn't eat went in a plastic sack and out to the can.

the compactor would turn about a 40 gallon can of trash into a 1 1/2 cubic foot block sanitized and sealed in a plastic lined heavy paper bag. i could fit 3 or 4 of those into a 40 gallon trash can at a time. i live in a township on the edge of a city of 1.2 million. they just recently went to a single waste hauler deal which forces everyone to use the same waste hauler. if you don't pay, they load the fee up on your property taxes and you have to pay that every 6 months. my wife sorts recyclables, paper, cardboard, glass, plastic, and cans, composts wet garbage except for meat, grease, fat, and bones, and burns a small amount of nonrecyclable paper along with wood outside when we spend some of the evening in our back yard.

even thought we're pretty much in the city, our house also has an hsts/ septic tank with leeching field so the same thing about what goes down the drain applies. we don't even have a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. a problem is that we also have city water (flouridated and chlorinated) and it's impossible for me to grow any bacteria in the septic tank. the solids build up pretty fast and i have to have it pumped way too often (at $525 a crack.)
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I had a conversation with my mother when we were stuck in a parking lot for 45 minutes, then spent another 15 minutes on a 1000ft section of road before the i95 on ramp. We talked about the tacoma I use to own and how I took many short cuts.

You know, driving over curbs, islands, driveways, anything the landscapers or engineers left in the middle of the "road". :rocker I told her I was sorry she had to wait as my Honda and Geo are too low to do that type of thing.

Well, she ripped me a new one saying I would get a ticket, arrested, charged with trespassing, etc, etc, etc. :smackface I told her if that was the case I would be beside you today and good luck to the cop if he could make any more progress than I did that day in the parking lot. :thumb
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My city's weight limit is 75lbs on the can...found that out the hard way.
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Your topics continue to get more interesting. . .
Edited by Ryan, Nov 7 2011, 12:50 AM.
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No pharmaceuticals were used in the making of this thread. :cheers

We cant find a weight limit, but we got a choice to use up to 4 20-30 gallon cans or a 95 gallon can from the company. Recycling service is available, but thats extra. :hmm

I think if I still own my condo and pay the fee, I should be able to use their trash machine for my needs. :P

See a lot of used ones for around 200 bucks. Guessing its just a few switches, a pump, lines, fluid and a ram?

I wonder if any of the ones that states, "needs to be cleaned" were the result of fluffy taking a one way trip by some demon child? :shake

t3ragtop, yeah we had septic and well. We are going to have all city everything, but gas service. Thats ok, we dont like gas. Those good bugs in the septic are easy to kill and really help to deal with all the :shit you throw at them.
Edited by Cobb, Nov 7 2011, 02:05 PM.
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