Professor Explain 🤯 on Instagram: "The video demonstrates how industrial trash compactors reduce massive volumes of waste into dense, manageable blocks. By applying extreme pressure, these machines force out trapped air and collapse materials like metal cans, plastic containers, and cardboard packaging into a tightly compressed mass. This process greatly improves efficiency in waste handling. Compacted trash takes up far less space, making transportation cheaper and reducing the strain on landf

@howeverythingwork.s on Instagram: "When a New York City garbage truck compresses trash, it’s doing more than just saving space. Inside the truck, a powerful hydraulic compactor crushes bags, food waste, and soaked materials together. All that pressure forces out leachate—a foul mix of water, food liquids, and decomposing waste. Since trash bags aren’t sealed and garbage often sits in the rain or snow, those liquids have to go somewhere. When the compactor slams forward, the built-up fluid can s