Industrial Trash Compactors

It comes down to three things: what the waste is, how much room you have, and how much of it there is.

• Start with what the waste is. Wet or food waste goes in a self-contained unit, because it has to be liquid tight. Dry waste goes in a stationary unit, which costs less to run and takes less room where staff load it.
• Then look at the space. A stationary setup needs room for the charge box and the receiver box behind it. A self-contained unit is one footprint but needs the truck to reach it.
• Then the volume. A compactor does not come into play right away. The floor is one 8 yard front load, emptied six times a week. Below that, a bigger container on a better schedule costs less. If you have the room, the next step is usually another container, not a compactor. That means cardboard or commingled recycling in its own front load, and a second 8 yard for trash. Past about 450 cubic yards a month, a vertical compactor starts to pay. Above that we price stationary and self contained units against loose front load service.

If the space is tight, a short-body stationary unit or a vertical compactor fits where a full-length unit will not. In an apartment building, a small unit sits under the trash chute. For bulky loads or nonstop volume, a pre-crusher or an auger crushes the material as it packs it.

A self-contained unit is one sealed piece and the whole thing is hauled away to be emptied, which makes it the one for wet and food waste. A stationary unit has a charge box that stays bolted down and compacts into a separate receiver box, and only that box leaves. Stationary is for dry waste.

Both. We sell them outright, and we also place them as part of a managed waste and recycling account. Which costs less depends on how long you will be in the building and how much you produce.

We arrange it. Call us when a unit goes down and we line up the service call with the people who maintain that equipment, for compactors we supplied and for units already on site when we take over an account.

What you pay depends on how you got the machine. On a rental, service is included. On a lease it is usually included, often for a set number of years. On a purchase it is normally covered for the first twelve months, and after that you pay for the call and the parts.

Call us and we will get it looked at. A compactor that stops means waste backing up inside the building, so it does not wait.

Most of the range runs on 208, 230 or 460 volt three-phase. Two of the smaller units are also available in 220 to 230 volt single phase.

Tell us what you already have at the site and we spec the machine to it. Bringing in three-phase where there is none is usually more expensive than picking a different unit.

They run from about 6 feet long for the smallest stationary unit to about 25 feet for the largest self-contained, and stand around 8 ft 6 in tall. The loading height is 44 inches on most.

A self-contained sits outside on a level pad. A stationary needs the same pad plus room for the container behind it, and both need clear space for the truck to hook and pull.

Six to eight weeks is normal for a new machine. We confirm the lead time when we quote, and we will tell you if a different model gets you there sooner.