How Does a Garbage Truck Compactor Work?
Compressed garbage trucks play a vital role in waste management, ensuring the efficient collection and transport of waste from residential and commercial areas to disposal facilities. By compressed garbage trucks to reduce its volume, the garbage truck compactor increases the load capacity, enabling waste hauling companies to maximize the number of pickups before needing to unload. How Garbage Truck Compactors Work The trash compactor has a compression chamber that runs along the length of the truck and has a discharge opening at one end and a feed opening at the other. In the compression chamber, there is a ram that is driven by hydraulics. Its job is to pack the trash to a certain density and pressure by moving back and forth. At the discharge opening of the chamber, a door can be manually moved between open and closed positions. When closed, the trash is compacted against it. A hydraulic compactor uses hydraulic press...