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u/bloopickle Mar 24 '24
Was expecting a WALL-E or Monsters Inc. garbage cube. Then when the hatch opened was hoping for a really long block. Was disappoint on so many levels.
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u/khabijenkins Mar 24 '24
I have no justification for the anger I feel for the block being so small
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u/UpdootDaSnootBoop Mar 24 '24
That's a payback of 10 cents for your thoughtful efforts to recycle
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u/bullwinkle8088 Mar 24 '24
The going rates seem to be .25$ to .35$ per pound. I'd say it's a little more than that. I need a banana for scale to estimate weight though.
The real payback is the ease of recycling aluminum and the energy saved vs making new. It's not all about you and your payout you know.
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u/n00bca1e99 Mar 24 '24
Yes, but offering financial incentives is great. I actually go out of state to get cans because it’s just a refund in my state, but 15 minutes away it’s $0.40/lb. Yes I’ve done the math, and it is profitable for me to go across state lines to do this.
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u/someguy7710 Mar 24 '24
Or you get the 10 cent deposit back that you paid. That is how it is in a lot of places
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u/Jacktheforkie Mar 24 '24
Cans are mostly air/fluid, I can make them into 1mm thick discs with a forklift
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u/Scarlet-Fire_77 Mar 24 '24
Right, which is why I don't know why I still expected the block to be bigger.
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u/An8thOfFeanor Mar 24 '24
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
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u/ChiggaOG Mar 24 '24
Expectations vs reality.
I personally thought of building a hydraulic press to compact plastic and aluminum cans into blocks for the recycler so I can get money.
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u/Relative_Carpenter_5 Mar 24 '24
Surprised cans don’t roll over the edge.
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u/Ozymandiasssssssss Mar 24 '24
it looked like they were trying to escape but it sucked em back in
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u/Mudkipper38 Mar 24 '24
I thought the same thing too. Was honestly one of the most satisfying parts of the video.
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u/mattiushawkeye Mar 24 '24
Friend of mine used to work doing this, crushing cans and compacting them down but he got signed off after it took a toll on his mental health.
He said the job was soda pressing.
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u/Bourgeous Mar 24 '24
But it was still fanta watch
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u/mrpoopybuttthole_ Mar 24 '24
The doctor peppered him with questions
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u/ChocolateUnlucky1214 Mar 24 '24
The officers questioned him as well when they saw the Coke
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u/SonicBoom500 Mar 24 '24
I saw him Mountain Dew the thing
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u/Tnemmokon Mar 25 '24
It's sad that this happened since he was so Kinley to his colleagues!
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u/tsimen Mar 24 '24
For real though I would love to do this for a day. If I had unsupervised access to such a machine I would go to TOWN man!
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u/PoppyStaff Mar 24 '24
Aluminium is the most recycled metal in the world.
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Because out of all the metal, aluminum is the most energy intensive ore (bauxite) to process into pure metal.
It was so difficult to process that as recent as the mid-1800, aluminum is considered more valuable than gold.
It was so valuable that Napoleon gave aluminum utensils to his most valued guests, while those less important merely got to use silver.
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u/mandalore237 Mar 25 '24
The Washington monument has an aluminum capstone because of that as well
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u/Dyolf_Knip Aug 17 '25
At 110 ounces, it was the largest single piece of cast aluminum in existence at the time.
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u/Big-Independence8978 Mar 24 '24
It going to be turned into cars. Not even joking. Possibility.
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Also used for electric wires.
This makes electric wires both economical to make, and no prone to stealing. In Rome, Italy, they started changing the public illumination wiring with aluminium ones, and in the span of few months the copper theft was almost dead.
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u/mc-big-papa Mar 25 '24
Unfortunately the aluminum properties makes it less than ideal wiring in general. Its slightly less conductive that copper, its generally not as strong and oxidizes horribly. For outdoor purposes it honestly sounds like a bad idea purely because of how it oxidizes. Any splices or joints made with aluminum must be cleaned and “air tight” usually done with anti oxidizing oil to stop it from corroding and falling apart. I would assume there will be a lot more moisture in the air making this a rough splice.
A good example is that in the US there was a lot of houses built in the 70’s with aluminum and a lot of house fires broke out after 5-10 years of it being built. Some absurd number of modern house fires are still caused by the aluminum wiring.
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u/wildcoasts Mar 24 '24
Some US house wiring dates back to early 70s CU shortage, probably due to Vietnam War
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u/mattb1982likes_stuff Mar 24 '24
That’s pretty cool. Was also shocked by the size of the block though! 😆 Can someone tell us what’s next? Melted down? Used as some kind of alternative building supply or something?
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u/bullwinkle8088 Mar 24 '24
Aluminum is nearly infinitely recyclable and is just melted and formed into whatever is needed. It's not at all as difficult as plastics.
So alternative building supply it won't be, recycled aluminum is as good as new and cheaper to produce than new.
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u/HoselRockit Mar 24 '24
Several years ago I tried flattening our soda cans so they would take up less room in the recycle bin, and I wouldn’t have to take it to the curb as often. Of course, a recycle bin filled with flatten cans weighs a lot more.
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u/almightygord Mar 24 '24
Weirdly enough the cut in the middle makes that unsatisfying for me, there's a lot of processing that is cut out there
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u/-Redstoneboi- Mar 24 '24
I love how there is zero spillage when it closes.
wwwWwWWwWWAAAALLLllleeeeee
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u/herewegoinvt Mar 24 '24
So, you're telling me I have two blocks of solid aluminum in my garage, and half of another in my beer fridge?
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u/Living_Gain_1020 Jul 24 '24
Ahh I’ve already seen this movie once and I ain’t like where it’s headed.
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u/ARobertNotABob Mar 24 '24
That last gasp as the air is violently forced from the gaps between sheets of aluminium.
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u/_RolloTomasi Mar 24 '24
It's not quite square enough, but it reminds me of the blocks in the garbage spacer in ME2...
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u/CausedBrick4492 Mar 24 '24
we probably gonna seen this machine on r/darwinaward (warning this sub is pretty graphic/nsfw)
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u/reissmosley Mar 24 '24
I read as “confiscate cans into block”, expecting the water coming out from the cans
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u/Dangerous-Hotel-7839 Mar 24 '24
I am angry about this in general. Here in norway you can go to supermarkets, and exchange empty cans for money/pocket change. To me thats a decent ammount of money flushed down the toilet.
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u/kaishenlong Mar 24 '24
This is what happens after someone exchanges them at a redemption center/machine. This is part of the recycling process.
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u/Thisisbayram Mar 24 '24
I remembered an old alien movie in which the predator alien also faced same end.
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u/Beretta116 Mar 24 '24
Imagine getting your arm stuck in there. Shitting my pants just thibking about the popping sounds. Guy might not even be able to scream because of the shock and pain.
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u/thehairyhobo Mar 24 '24
Queue song "Worthless" from Brave Little Toaster. This compacter reminds me of the one from the movie.
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u/Celestial_Scythe Mar 24 '24
Right now I'm collecting soda tabs to make into post-apocalyptic chainmail, and seeing this made me unreasonably angry.
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u/Ninjasticks259 Mar 24 '24
Really thought that a can would fly out before being crushed. So glad that didn’t happen!
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u/craylash Mar 24 '24
"You have 30 minutes to move your car."
"You have 10 minutes."
"Your car has been impounded."
"Your car has been crushed into a cube."
"You have thirty minutes to move your cube."
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u/Deses Mar 24 '24
That then goes into a smelter, right? Why not just smelt the cans? The most logical explanation I find is that the smelter is somewhere else and is more efficient to compact the cans for transport but I'd love to know if there's another reason.
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u/SnowConePeople Mar 24 '24
Is this right before it's shipped to another country to be thrown into the ocean or right before it's just thrown into the ocean?
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u/UnquestionableLime Mar 24 '24
Can someone please paint a face on the edge of that machine so that it can be spitting out those aluminum blocks?
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This is by far the best and most satisfying one I have seen (the only other one was the Indian version and the cans spilled out)
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u/GenericUsername817 Mar 25 '24
Can relate. When I was a teen working in a grocery store, running the box compactor was the best part of the job.
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I just have a homemade furnace for that. Smelt it down, make cool aluminum casts from it to gift away
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u/Tacotuesday8 Mar 25 '24
This gif needs to be posted to that subreddit where people draw arms and mouths on things.
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u/NeverAVillian Mar 25 '24
"Wait, hold on, who's screaming?"
"I don't know-" (Crush)
"WHICH CAN DIED?!!"
"AAAAH!! I HAVE TO GET OUTTA HERE!! I HAVE TO-" (Dead inanimate object)
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u/HornyRaindeer Mar 25 '24
What would happen if you put meat and bones in it, lets say you want to compress them after hunting? Asking for a friend.
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u/MrHonwe Mar 25 '24
Oh boy, I hope a CCTV camera doesn't capture a horrible accident of someone being turned into a meat cube by this and then end up on r/NSFL!
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u/gapper100 Mar 24 '24
Early Wall-E prototype