Shredder for plastic food packaging

IM

Our council is moving to fortnightly general waste collections to (delete as appropriate) - a) encourage recycling and do their bit for climate change b) save a few quid and make life inconvenient for us.

The list of what cannot go into the recycling bin (plastic food trays, margarine tubs, yogurt pots etc.) probably makes up 80% of what will go into the small general waste bin.

Is there such a thing available as a shredder which can cut up plastic packaging, and avoid the need for hiring a passing elephant to sit on the bin lid each week?

Myser

Shops and industrial premises usually use a large compactor and then send the compacted packaging or boxes on for disposal/recycling.

Here is a domestic product which compacts waste but unsure how much it costs:

http://www.wastecompactors.co.uk/kitchenaid_compactor.htm

jbainbridge

Complain to your councillor.

The only stuff we can't recycle is plastic packaging/bags and black plastic. Most of the time we struggle to fill the bin for the fortnightly collection.

IM

Couldn't find a price for that, but strangely drawn to the bridge-of-the-Enterprise lights of this....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KITCHEN-WASTE-BIN-WASTE-COMPACTOR-LED-LIGHTS-STAINLESS-STEEL-FINISH-/130908257865?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D7657442696625827455%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D130889163233%26

Myser

IM wrote: »

Couldn't find a price for that, but strangely drawn to the bridge-of-the-Enterprise lights of this....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KITCHEN-WASTE-BIN-WASTE-COMPACTOR-LED-LIGHTS-STAINLESS-STEEL-FINISH-/130908257865?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D7657442696625827455%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D130889163233%26

I think that works on the same principal as vacuum clothes storage bags. Not sure how effective it'll be but at that price, sounds like a bargain! Although you do need to purchase their special bin bags with a vacuum hole at the bottom.

You'll probably be paying anywhere from £800 upwards for a proper domestic compactor.