kitchen trash compactor

[jyl]

Anyone have one? What do you think? Recommend it?

[Evans, Marv]

I put one in when I built our house. It lasted almost six years and died. I read they are the first appliance to die. There are only two of us, but I found out we put out about the same amount of trash bags without the compactor. I installed a trash can with a sort of slide mechanism, & I like it a lot better.

[Bugsinrugs]

I’ve got one. Lasted almost 30 years. It’s dead now. Probably put in a wine fridge in its spot

[masraum]

I've heard of them, but I've never actually seen one. I'm not sure what the point is.

[Cairo94507]

We are just completing a full house remodel and our old kitchen had a trash compactor. We just bought this house at the end of 2021 and had never had a compactor before. I found it convenient and it squished trash nicely. What we did not like was keeping garbage in the kitchen. In our remodel we eliminated the compactor. I just think they are a thing of the 80's. We don't want to keep garbage in the kitchen.

[HobieMarty]

Mom had a 4th floor condo that had a trash compactor. She used it all the time to smash her trash down so it would easily slide down the garbage chute to the dumpsters below.

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[GH85Carrera]

When we moved into our house, 27 years ago the former residents left a Sears trash compactor in the garage. It is HEAVY and not something I wanted to move, so I took it apart, and found two micro switches that one was bad, the other bent. I fixed both, and it worked great. No way was I moving it into the kitchen. So we started using it as a aluminum can crusher. Trash compactor bags are cheap, and it takes a while to end up with a block of aluminum cans. I would collect 5 bags of compacted cans and go to the scrap metal place and get $22 bucks.

I then did the math. The IRS was paying 50 cents a mile back then, and the round trip to the recycle place, left me with enough to have a $5 lunch. All that effort, for not much reward.

We still crush the cans into a block, and I take them and donate them to a fire station a mile away and they collect them from many people and then recycle them to buy articles for the fire station.

So a compactor for free for cans made sense. To put food scraps or just household trash in and make a very heavy block of "stuff" made no sense to me. We never fill up one of our wheelie bins that get picked up once per week. We have two of the bins, and we have the second one for spring and fall cutting of the plant debris of my wife's many flower beds.

We have a separate bin for recycling. All cardboard boxes and plastic bottles or containers go in that for every other week pickup.

A uncompacted kitchen trash can of typical trash gets pretty heavy. Take two or three weeks of trash compacted into a block, it would be really heavy. Most women would not be wanting to take that to the outside can. Of course, the only time my wife has taken the trash out or to the curb, was when I had my hip replaced, and I was using a walker.

[look 171]

I put 'em in people kitchen backin the late 90s and early 2000s. People found having that space for a regular roll oout trash can or just having addition lower cabinet space more valuable. We didn't install that many, only a few and have not heard back from any of the clients that they want bad. They were all old fashion Vikings, heavy duty built likje a tank. I pulled one out of my house, a viking of course, about 10-15 years old. Bought it to replace the old Sears one that came with the house to fill the hole only to find that we used it no more then 20 times. I still have it sitting in storage hoping to use it one day but now its just a giant, heavy, small table we set things onto. It will never be used again, I jsut can't part with it only because I spend good money on it.

[javadog]

Put one in my last house, it worked well. Had that house 22 years and it’s probably still going.