Garbage Crusher

Since I moved to Amsterdam and lived by myself, one of the things I avoided was taking out the trash. I made a deal with the cleaning lady that she would take it out when she comes every two weeks.

This resulted in a dilemma, I have to make sure my trash can can fit all my garbage for two weeks. I started optimizing by crushing everything and making it smaller. After all I don’t want to get garbage overflow and have to take the trash out.

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Bottles either get crushed of filled with other stuff

The problem is sometimes my physical power doesn’t allow me to do this all the time. I wished trash bins had a garbage crusher built in so people like me can save the space. Until the cleaning lady comes…