Thursday, December 22, 2022

History of the Trash compator

M.S. Wells patented the first trash compactor in 1941 for crushing oil cans. By the 1970s, John A. Boyd filed a patent for compacting household trash using hydraulic pressure from a water connection. This allowed the garbage to be compressed and made it easier for disposal. 

Nowadays trash compactors can control odors and handle wet and dry items.

From the price (about $1,000 when you factor in installation as well), the trash compactor failed in the market for various reasons. Users felt it took up too much space. It also left with compacted rectangular-shaped packages that didn’t fit into round garbage bins. And while the compactor decreased volume (storage space), it increased the density of the compacted items, making for a full compactor bag weighing more than 30 pounds (about the same weight as 20 dozen eggs) this as well as its cost made it difficult to sell.

And now trash compactors are in a decline in popularity. They are dangerous too if you are fixing a large one and it starts to compress, you are good as dead (meaning squashed to death).

So they are dangerous as well as expensive to install and purchase, and that is a reason for less usage of the Trash compactor.



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