| ugh standard 55 gallon drums are one of the most | | | | and get the most out of the machine. |
| convenient storage mediums seen in modern industrial | | | | Many businesses use standard 55 gallon drums for |
| facilities, the greatest limitation offered by the | | | | disposal of general waste from industrial processes, |
| vessels is their comparatively large size that makes | | | | and a drum compactor can help in this regard. As well |
| disposal difficult. When your business uses a lot of | | | | as being used to crush drums down to just 6 inches |
| drums, you will soon discover that these useful | | | | in height, fitting a different head onto the piston, the |
| storage items quickly become a liability when it | | | | compactor can be used to compress the waste in a |
| comes to disposal. The relatively large size of the | | | | drum, allowing you to fit even more waste materials |
| barrels coupled with the important and highly | | | | into it. This will allow for you to make enormous |
| expensive costs of disposal under EPA guidelines | | | | reductions to the amount of waste that your |
| means that one of the most important considerations | | | | business produces, and minimize the amount of |
| facing any user of standard drums is their disposal. | | | | storage space that you need for waste. |
| With this in mind, having appropriate systems such as | | | | The cost benefits of a drum compactor are |
| steel drum compactors in place to reduce the | | | | numerous, ranging from the fact that they reduce |
| disposal cost is vital to ensuring the continued | | | | the amount that a business needs to pay for the |
| profitability of your business. | | | | disposal of used drums through to the more subtle |
| Many recycling and disposal companies make a | | | | savings such as the reduction in the amount of space |
| charge to companies based on the volume of the | | | | that needs to be dedicated to storing waste |
| items that they are dealing with, so crushing any | | | | products. The drum compactor is an increasingly |
| waste drums to the smallest size possible will reduce | | | | important part of any business’ waste |
| your costs enormously. Steel drum compactors are | | | | management strategy, and as greater focus is placed |
| able to take a standard empty 55 gallon drum, and | | | | on recycling and sustainable management of |
| then compress it to just 6 inches in height using more | | | | resources, the ability to prepare drums for reuse by |
| than 38,000 pounds of crushing power. | | | | crushing them for storage means that you will be |
| The latest steel drum compactors are high powered | | | | doing your bit for the environment by getting drums |
| and are excellent for reducing the amount of storage | | | | ready for reprocessing. |
| space required for waste, and reduce the costs of | | | | With the ease of use offered by the latest steel |
| disposal too. | | | | drum compactors, and the impressive power that |
| Thanks to their push button operation, the steel | | | | they are able to bring into place for crushing and |
| drum compactors are incredibly simple for anyone to | | | | compressing waste makes them a useful tool for |
| use, and a 25 second turnaround between crushing | | | | managing your storage space. |
| actions, it is possible to run a very effective process | | | | |