Here's my new habit: Whenever I take the plastic wrap off a roll of paper towels or some other package, it goes straight into my Obaggo, a personal trash compactor about the size of a coffee maker.

It’s the Clear Drop Soft Plastic Compactor, and it’s not exactly adorable. But it’s fun to feed unrecyclable plastic into the machine and have it spit out bricks! Justine and I teamed up for a hybrid ...

Taiwan-based company offers balers and shredders designed for plastic scrap preparation. Polystar says its Repro-Flex cutter-compactor prepares material into a more solid form to be fed into the ...