Then she desperately tries to cram them into the trash compactor, all at the same time.

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Anyone who has a trash compactor knows that this is a bad idea.

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When she gets to the compactor, she stands on her toes and strains to stuff the trash bags into the overhead opening.

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The information harvested from each compactor allows waste managers to optimize collection routes and schedules and prevent hot spots from becoming problems.

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They bought a truck with a compactor, hired one full-time employee, and built the business into 1, 250 residential and 70 commercial businesses.

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In the first half, WALL-E, a robotic trash collector and compactor, continues to go about his duties after the human presence has been blown away from Earth by billowing waves of noxious dust.

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In this case, the documents were recovered by authorities after being notified by a cooperating witness that he had been ordered by Stover to throw the documents in a trash compactor, not a shredder.

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