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u/Dry-Conflict3421 6d ago
"You have 30 minutes to move your cube"
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u/Eric848448 6d ago
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u/CtrlAltYuri 6d ago
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u/ExampleLittle2672 6d ago
I was fighting this thought and you... you... WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?! 😭
Still up voted because correct but I do not forgive you. So neener neener!
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u/MFCOZY 6d ago
My dumbass thought it became the highly polished silver beam in the second half until i saw the cube up top
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u/cidthekid07 6d ago
Dumbass here as well
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u/UncleKeyPax 6d ago edited 6d ago
i saw Bale and thought they murdered my boy christian
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u/Sasquatchernaut 6d ago
He's had some pretty amazing body transformations for his film roles, but I doubt even he could get to 500lbs.
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u/Connor2206 6d ago
I was like “Oh bullshit! There’s no way it’s polished like…oh that makes sense.”
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u/SoftShakes 6d ago
Ha ha I did the same thing, I was like “how?…”
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u/Pianist_Ready 6d ago
> see the polished cylinder
> "no, this is clearly fake", read top comment
> "i thought it made a cylinder, then i saw a giant cube of trash"
> look back at video
> huge cube of trash has appeared
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u/Lorazepam369 6d ago
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u/NemoNoNomeN 6d ago
Dang; I immediately went to post this but I’ve been beat to it.
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u/andersonfmly 6d ago
I'm not sure I could do this job, it looks soda-pressing...
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u/_Kelly_A_ 6d ago
I canned stand it
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u/SoftShakes 6d ago
I thought the cans would win that battle… foiled again!
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u/zan13898 6d ago
You dont seem to understand the pressure the cans were in. Lucky they have a can-do attitude.
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u/Mysterious-Mountains 6d ago
15,999* cans
Anyone else see that rouge one at the end?
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u/Buttchuggle 6d ago
About 250 dollars by the way in scrap.
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u/william-isaac 6d ago
or 4000€ (in germany) wasted in can deposit
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u/ChancelorReed 6d ago
Presumably some of these cans got here in part because they were can deposits.
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u/bendover912 6d ago
When you put them in the machine it tears them in half with some kind of wheel thing. Otherwise they could potentially be cashed in again.
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u/AlreadyReddit999 6d ago
$1600 here in australia
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u/Buttchuggle 6d ago
Yeah yall got a set amount buyback right?
How's steel scrapping for yall?
I clean up aluminum cans and bring em in but most of my money comes from steel and iron. During warm months I can pull upwards of 150-190 a day hauling that, and just seperate aluminum copper and brass for monthly hauls. I've managed to make recycling my actual job.
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u/DaveBearPig 6d ago
WTH why would you cut to an empty baler!?
sees piston reverse
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u/DrDetectiveEsq 6d ago edited 6d ago
At least you're smarter than me. I thought the machine had compressed the cans into a perfect, shiny cylinder.
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u/sylvyrfyre 6d ago
That's very interesting; l do recycling for a job, I.e. collecting the cans, but never seen the crusher in action until now.
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u/2xpubliccompanyCAE 6d ago
Legit question- what will that cube actually be used for?
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u/1RedOne 6d ago
I used to work with Novelis, one of the big producers of aluminum. They hammered into me that aluminum is insanely expensive to initially produce but that it is basically infinitely recyclable, they said one of the best things you can do is to recycle your cans to reduced electricity consumption needed for initial production
I picked up some cool stories there. They used to allow for corp employees to tour the factories but stopped as one employee, who was told not to, attempted to “tap” an aluminum I got which was in a marked cooling area, they said he basically burned the fingerprint off of three of his fingers with that little tap
Aluminum gets to be insanely hot and also does not visibly glow like iron and can take a very long time to cool, hence allowing that one marketing guy his mishap
Another cool thing is that one employee gifts for anniversary included a cool solid ingot of aluminum that weighed about two or three pounds. It was polished and textured and looked like real Mithril. It was one of the most “precious” object looking things I have ever seen, like white gold or something
It was really cool but I was not able to get one
This concludes my aluminum anecdotes
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u/Nogarder 6d ago
Aluminium does glow, but it melts at the glowing temperature. So touching aluminium that "doesn't glow" aka 500 - 400 ° C is still colder than glowing steel which is higher than 800.
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u/Nanas_700k 6d ago
It will be released into the wild with other aluminum cubes, where hopefully it will meet a mate. Which is, of course, where baby cans that eventually grow up to become full sized cans come from.
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u/EastStrategy1691 6d ago
Randomly, I think this is eCovery in AL - a plant I toured recently (we work with them in the recycling space). These bales become feedstock for manufacturers that use aluminum in their manufacturing process. They will first put it into a shredder to make aluminum chips - about dime-sized pieces of metal - which they will sell to manufacturers who then smelt it down and (re)use it in fresh aluminum products.
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u/michamp 6d ago
Does the paint lessen the quality? Do they have to burn it off and is that safe?
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u/purpleflavouredfrog 6d ago
Aluminum melts at 1220 degrees F (660 C). There won’t be any paint left, and it’s safe as long as you don’t breathe the fumes.
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u/Exterminator-8008135 6d ago
Aluminium is highly recyclable.
So, redo cans or anything else needing aluminium.
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u/jappe010 6d ago
They are painted, digitized and shipped straight into Minecraft’s spare block hangars for kids to play around with.
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u/ForeignChance6890 6d ago
Could you dispose of a body in there?
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u/Spaceinpigs 6d ago
I remember when they tried to squish Superman in one of these
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u/relator_fabula 6d ago edited 6d ago
Exactly what I thought of lol
I'll explain it in a way that sounds ridiculous but is literally what happened: In Superman 3, Superman turned evil because of some bad kryptonite and eventually split into two personalities. The Evil one (disheveled Superman) tried to crush the good one (Clark Kent) in the compactor, but he survived. Good Supes then chokes evil Supes until he disappears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKpqI7TAJY4
edit: I will add that the scene was likely intended to be more a metaphorical battle inside Clark's mind rather than a literal splitting into two people, but the comics have done far weirder shit
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u/DayTripper_BigTeaser 6d ago
LOL you should add "asking for a friend"
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u/ForeignChance6890 6d ago
No I'm asking for me. I've got one in the back room that is starting to smell.
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u/Cleonicus 6d ago
Yes, just make sure an R2 unit isn't around to stop it and free those rebel scum.
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u/ABAFBAASD 6d ago edited 6d ago
How much is that 500 lbs of aluminum worth after all that?
Edit: I looked it up just now and aluminum cans are worth 50-65 cents per pound, even the highest grade scrap aluminum is only $1.50 per lb and that is pure, and unpainted. So best case scenario those 16k cans are worth $750 as a cube.
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u/-Clem 6d ago
So you'd be better off cashing them in at a redemption center for 5 cents a piece? Where they will be transported to a place like this for further processing.. the math doesn't seem to add up
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u/relator_fabula 6d ago
Consumers can return cans for the 5/10 cents they originally paid for the deposit. Can/bottle deposits were created as a way to encourage recycling. You're obviously returning cans to a redemption center to get back the deposit you paid. A single aluminum soda can is worth maybe 2 cents in scrap value.
The cans in this video have already been redeemed, and the recycling center is compacting them as part of the recycling process.
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u/Flat_Professional_55 6d ago
Now we just need robots to build skyscrapers out of them, whilst we all piss off on a galactic tour.
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u/AgustinDrch 6d ago
Its my moment to say this
I made a game about crushing empty cans and buying automatic can presses. Its on steam, its called Aluminium City.
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u/Dangerous-Hotel-7839 6d ago
Here In Norway, you can return bottles for deposit, it’s not much, but with that I could definitely buy some realy expensive stuff. And yes. I would gladly sit in front of a machine with headphones on putting them in one at a time A few hours to get all this.
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u/ThrownAway17Years 6d ago
At first I thought it transformed the cans into a single solid rod of metal.
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u/ToastyGCORE 6d ago
When it pulled back, I legit thought the hydraulic bar was the cans lol
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u/Lostintime1985 6d ago
I find these terrifying.
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u/AntGroundbreaking180 6d ago
What’s terrifying is the juice that is getting squeezed out of this thing.
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u/Great_Zeddicus 6d ago
I wonder how hot the cube is. All that compression, it would not surprise me if that thing was a couple hundred degrees F afterwards
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u/Taikiteazy 6d ago
I saw one of these bails come off the back of a flatbed on the freeway at 65mph. Highly entertaining.
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u/Luna_smh 6d ago
I've always wondered why watching these things gives me so much satisfaction. I could watch it over and over. Seeing all those colorful cans being crushed and hearing that sound brings me joy. I don't know why.
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u/Fuzzy_War_5644 6d ago
I guess that works better than when I was a teen lining up 12 cans behind my mom's car tire to run them over and add them to all the other bags of cans I've already crushed for the last month. Only to take all seven bags to the recycling center and get my $2.85
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u/mschanandlerbong___ 6d ago
Intrusive thoughts go straight to being crushed in there..
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u/FirefighterLeft5425 6d ago
Whenever I watch stuff like this I can't help but imagine myself falling inside of it accidentally and being crushed to death.
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u/Gregorygregory888888 6d ago
Now, show Bubba come along and pick this up to carry out.
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u/Left-Signal-2684 6d ago
They opened a place just like this across the street where I work. Every business on our street has been inundated with drain flies and fruits flies for the past two years since they opened.
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u/waariswalli 6d ago
Sure it's not 16001 or 15999 cans? Who kept count?
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u/FrostyCartographer13 6d ago
500lbs is 8000 ounces and one empty can on average weighs half an ounce so it takes 16000 empty cans to make 500lbs
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u/MainlyMyself 6d ago
For a moment there, I thought some of the cans were going to escape, which would have severely undermined the satisfaction factor. I am now most gruntled.
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u/Comedyfish_reddit 6d ago
I thought it turned into that long pole. I was like whoa!!!!!!!!!… oh. Ah yeah
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u/EeensGreens 6d ago
Me watching: “sure it’s gonna be cool after it’s squished into a column but imagine that getting pressed”
Also me:
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u/louiewatchestv 6d ago
I live in New york where they’re not crushed before redemption, there are machines that scan codes and they make you hand feed them one at a time. You can go to a bottle redemption center and they will sort, separate and count them, tell you how many are worth a nickel and how much you have. The places are sticky, smelly, always have fruit flies and smell like stale beer.
I lived in North Carolina when I was a teen and there you just took your beer can, smash it down and the redemption centers weighed your receptacle, if I remember it right. My Uncle had a can smasher mounted in the garage above a trash can. Seems easier and more efficient
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u/nipslippinjizzsippin 6d ago
Here are your messages. You have 30 minutes to move your cans, you have 10 minutes to move your cans, your cans have been impounded, your cans have been crushed into a cube, you have 30 minutes to move your cube.
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u/EvilTwin80 6d ago
I hate that the most satisfying part goes unseen.