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.

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 ...

The design of a solar-powered trash compactor for city streets used several plastic-molding issues to make it practical. The original compactor made by BigBelly Solar in Needham, Mass., worked well ...