do you know any can crushers?

my son and daughter in law take all my drinks cans and 2 litre bottles to a lidl store in glasgow and get 5p per can and use the voucher towards shopping.

I live in Sweden and almost every supermarket has a can crusher for soft drinks or beer cans. You put your can in, the machine reads the barcode and then crushes it. You then press a button and get a ticket to redeem your deposits at the till. Same system for glass/plastic bottles although they don't get crushed.

If you put a "foreign" can in - it still crushes and recycles it but you don't get money back

Although you have to time in right - the day after major holidays there can be queues of people with binbags full of cans.

Calendargirl

I put on my DH’s boots and jump on them.

If you have a local cubs or Brownies, and you have a lot of cans, you could ask if the children would like to help with your recycling. I know when we did a collection they fought to see how many each they cold do.

I now give mine to a local charity collection point who have a crusher on their wall

They go into my recycling bin

I might know OF one, but personal acquaintance?
No.

Snap

We had one of these for years, just look up wall mounted can crushers on Amazon, they work well and don't need much force.

Never saw one at any recycling places I've ever been to.erhaps they'd be vandalised now or perhaps just not the spare cash to provide them ?

AuntieE

If you can find the kitchen gadget for crushing boiled potatoes into "snow" rather than mash, an old one works very well for crushing thin drinks cans or plastic containers for cream etc.

You can also buy can crushers - most boat clubs have one.

Now I'm intrigued, why would boat clubs specifically have can crushers?

If you can find the kitchen gadget for crushing boiled potatoes into "snow" rather than mash, an old one works very well for crushing thin drinks cans or plastic containers for cream etc.

You can also buy can crushers - most boat clubs have one.

We used to have a trash compactor built into our kitchen in the US, fantastic piece of equipment never understood why they haven't taken off here. Just put all such things in the designated bin, press the button and hey presto, drastically reduced.

I have one at home. Can’t remember where I got it from but it works really well - great fun.

Can crushers are available on Amazon for £9-99p , works great !

I’m just back from Portugal, whilst stocking up on tonic water there, was surprised how more expensive they were, with my poor Portuguese and an assistant wanting to improve her English, understanding there is now an extra charge which can be redeemed at a crushing machine, stops people littering, what a great idea😀

he used to breed budgies. Hard to think of a big man like that with such delicate little birds, Geoff Capes I mean
I have seen can crushers try amazon or ebay

JenniferEccles

Who was that strong man from years ago ?
Geoff Capes I think his name was.
I imagine he could crush a few cans!

Sadly he’s dead now.

Who was that strong man from years ago ?
Geoff Capes I think his name was.
I imagine he could crush a few cans!

They are satisfying but our blue bin is huge- It's never more than ⅙ full even with everything but plastic milk bottles being left whole.

“Not personally, no”! 😆

We have a crusher outside by the green bin, its well used.’

I stayed as a helping mum 30 plus years ago with a group of Brownies on a pack holiday. Brown owl taught the girls to take the top and then the bottom of baked beans can off, after use of course, with a tin opener and then squash the tin very flat. Took up no space at all. And these were big cans. Beans for 30. We had veey little plastic just cereal packets and bottles. All washed before binning.
I wonder if those almost 50 year olds do the same now.

I crush everything, wash everything out, take out the plastic windows & rip off the gummy bit on envelopes.
Then hear it’s all incinerated anyway 😩

I put on my DH’s boots and jump on them.

Yes…. my hands

Not personally, no.