Netherlands-based Van Beek has introduced a bag compactor that is designed to help production companies handle the empty bags they generate as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the company says.

Here's my new habit: Whenever I take the plastic wrap off a roll of paper towels or some other package, it goes straight into my Obaggo, a personal trash compactor about the size of a coffee maker.

bottles, containers, bulbs, plate glass) is best achieved with glass crushers, which shatter rather than compress the materials. A plastics processor, such as the one being developed by the Navy, is a ...

As a kid, I went door to door collecting cans to earn some pocket change. Today, I still take pride in recycling. I slice cardboard boxes down to size each Sunday, and make sure every viable plastic ...

Taiwan-based company offers balers and shredders designed for plastic scrap preparation. Polystar says its Repro-Flex cutter-compactor prepares material into a more solid form to be fed into the ...