Even if you bring home as few bags as possible — using reusable bags, carrying purchases home with your own two hands — soft ...

Netherlands-based Van Beek has introduced a bag compactor that is designed to help production companies handle the empty bags they generate as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the company says.

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.

A new Bag Dump System from Flexicon (Europe) Ltd. collects dust generated during manual dumping, compaction of bags and conveys bulk material downstream. Read more ...

The good news is that Sierra Contracting, which collects residential and some commercial garbage in the unincorporated area of Lincoln County, is functioning so well that the owner of the service told ...