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For example, a former Goodwill employee revealed that her store was so overrun with mugs that the overstock ended up in a trash compactor.
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Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
Under federal law, a trash compactor cannot legally be loaded by anyone under 18 years of age.
—Logan Smith, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
On a cold morning in January, a trash compactor rolled down a stretch of East 12th Avenue, where a dozen people lived in tents and cars.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
The family of a Brooklyn mother whose body was found stuffed in a black plastic bag inside a NYCHA complex trash compactor room is desperate to know how a fun night out with friends ended with her death and dismemberment.
—Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
Those expansive delights have all been smashed into our current trash compactor of Political Relevance All the Time.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
There's the trash compactor, Emperor Palpatine's throne room, a hangar with an Imperial Shuttle and a whole lot more.
—Kim Snaith, Space.com, 27 Nov. 2025
These rooms include the trash compactor, Princess Leia’s prison cell and the tractor beam control room from A New Hope, and Emperor Palpatine’s throne room as seen in Return of the Jedi.
—Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
The boyfriend said he was forced to discard some of the evidence, including the knife and cleaning supplies, into a trash compactor, deputies said.
—Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
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Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
Under federal law, a trash compactor cannot legally be loaded by anyone under 18 years of age.
—Logan Smith, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
On a cold morning in January, a trash compactor rolled down a stretch of East 12th Avenue, where a dozen people lived in tents and cars.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
The family of a Brooklyn mother whose body was found stuffed in a black plastic bag inside a NYCHA complex trash compactor room is desperate to know how a fun night out with friends ended with her death and dismemberment.
—Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
Those expansive delights have all been smashed into our current trash compactor of Political Relevance All the Time.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
There's the trash compactor, Emperor Palpatine's throne room, a hangar with an Imperial Shuttle and a whole lot more.
—Kim Snaith, Space.com, 27 Nov. 2025
These rooms include the trash compactor, Princess Leia’s prison cell and the tractor beam control room from A New Hope, and Emperor Palpatine’s throne room as seen in Return of the Jedi.
—Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
The boyfriend said he was forced to discard some of the evidence, including the knife and cleaning supplies, into a trash compactor, deputies said.
—Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Trash compactor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trash%20compactor. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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