Saving Money On Your Garbage Bill With A Trash Compactor

Filed under: Garbage Compactor - 22 Feb 2010  | Spread the word !

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Are you tired of your garbage bill going up and up each time you buy something big like a TV or a new microwave? The reason that it costs you more is because it has a bigger area so the garbage company charges you for the amount of area your garbage takes up. If the garbage company is nice, they will give you a trash can and that is how they measure the amount of they charge you for, if you have some trash on the ground next to the trash can, they will take it but you will get charged extra for that garbage near the trash can. There is a way to cut down on the amount of trash you send out from week to week and save you money on your trash bill. There is a home appliance that helps you out in that way and is called a garbage compactor.

Think about this, if you are putting out two cans of garbage a week and each can is costing you $12, that’s about $24 a week. That is not including tax and any other charges that the garbage company will charge you. With a garbage compactor, you can trade two cans of garbage into less than one can in a matter of minutes. The great thing about the garbage compactor is that there might be some weeks where you have no garbage sitting out at the curb. This machine can save you a few dollars later on down the road. The benefits are endless because if you recycle, you can save even more money because some models of the garbage compactor can crush aluminum cans.

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Using Your Garbage Compactor for Organic Waste

Filed under: Garbage Compactor - 01 Feb 2010  | Spread the word !

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One big problem with composting organic kitchen waste can be space. A lot of households produce such a large quantity of organic waste such as fruit and vegetable peelings, left over food, tea bags, crusts from bread and other waste. It is amazing how very quickly it can all build up in the kitchen and it is not nice having it hanging around. However, the compost bin might be a long walk away and you do not want to be going down the garden after every meal or it may be filling up very quickly. Sometimes it seems to fill up so fast that you do not seem to have room for anything else in it and then you have to think of a new place to put it.

Using a garbage compactor might be a good solution. Obviously you would only be able to use it for the waste that you intended to compost, but it would make it smaller and easier to handle as well as making it take up less space in the compost bin. Think about how much easier it would make things for you and how, by compacting the waste it might even help it to start rotting more quickly.

If you already have a garbage compactor then why not give it a go and see what you think of it, you may find it has , otherwise consider buying one and see what a difference it can make to the amount of space that you can save.

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