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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
An ingenious answer to a non existent problem. If you really need to crush your cans why not stamp on each can as you finish it
You'd think, wouldn't you. But very many of the people we collect from haven't thought of it. Or squashing plastic bottles. Then they wonder why their recycling box is full up, and they play the ingenious game of Recycling Buckaroo where they balance everything else on top, ready to fall off the minute you try and pick the box up....
Hence, we could do with a mass crushing solution (crushing each one as we collect would take too long), preferably human powered as we don't have electricity in our yard.
Besides, designing a machine like that helps to continue the skills of innovation and making, skills which are sadly getting lost as we rely on ready built electronic items.