Northern California Compactors | Compacting Advice and Services in Northern California 1-800-464-3095 » Waste Management http://norcalcompactors.com Northern California Compactors offers advice, services and information about shredders, balers and compactors for industrial and commercial recycling and waste use throughout the United States and Canada. For more information, please contact us at 800-464-3095. Fri, 16 May 2008 20:33:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en All About Compactors http://norcalcompactors.com/all-about-compactors/ http://norcalcompactors.com/all-about-compactors/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:07:36 +0000 Cort http://businessoperationsconsulting.org/all-about-compactors/ A compactor is exactly what it sounds like – a machine used to minimize waste and space through the process of compaction. A compactor is usually a large, rectangular machine powered by hydraulics; though it can take many shapes and sizes.

Probably the most well-known example of a compactor is one used for crushing cars. It can take the form of a pancake-flat plate crushing the car directly from above or a more common type of baling compactor that smashes it from four sides, creating a type of ‘rectangle.’

Even just a large bulldozer that crushes waste material beneath its wheels could be considered a compactor.

In the commercial arena, compactors are used frequently by retail and service industries, which usually have large amounts of refuse, much of it non-recyclable. In that case, compacting the waste materials greatly decreases space needed in landfills and similar areas.

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