GADGET SOLVES PLASTIC PROBLEM
I hate to see my friends throw their clean, dry plastic bags in the trash. But even if they sort them, 95% will not be recycled. So I decided to do something about it. On Indiegogo.com, I pre-ordered the “Obaggo,” a 10.5-inch-tall trash compactor that will sit on my kitchen counter. With a little heat and a lot of pressure, it turns 20 to 25 grocery bags into dense hockey pucks about six inches in diameter. Recycling centers can shred the disks and turn them into pellets, the kind industry uses to make new products. If you use thicker bags, like those blue and white ones from Amazon, it will take fewer. You can also use vegetable bags, cereal box […]
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