I don't crush my cans dead flat. I just pick 1 up, shake it to see that theres nothing in it, then squash it between my thumb & fingers so the sides touch each other and chuck it in the bin.
I find I can drop the volume of the cans about 50% by just doing that.
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Theres something else about all of this...
My scrap dealer said that.
start quote> "If you squash the cans dead flat, they don't take up much less space than if you just squashed it by hand. It just takes a lot more of your time.
Then, when you drop a dead flat can, its **** hard to pick up, its skates across the ground & you have to get your fingernails under it to lift it off the floor.
Then.. When we try to pour them into the crusher, they slip & skate everywhere & WE have to pick them up, one by one.
Then.. When we pull the squashed cube of of the bailer, because the flat cans can't 'bind' together as the squash, the cube can fall apart. (that'd ruin my day too, if that happened)
So, don't waste your time crushing them, we know that if you have went thru the whole lot & checked each one individually & crushed it like that, that we are getting a good product.
That we can check for stones by just shaking the bag & the cans don't actually hold that much water anyway, we can hear it. Thats Ok" ." < end quote
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