Yes (did the grocery stpre thing for years when in high school/college)...you bale until it wont compact and then run metal wires through the bottom channel, tie them off and hook the chainup..when you let the hydraulic compressor up, it dumps the bale out onto a pallet. They generally weight 300-500 pounds as 2 of us could muscle it up if needed.



Yes you can bale plastics of all types in addition to paper and cardboard.