Editing Compactor (section)

==Municipal use==
In the United States, in addition to the waste vehicle and landfill use, there are [[solar-powered trash compactor]]s that can hold the equivalent of 200 gallons of trash before they need to be emptied.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12045048 Solar Compactors Make Mincemeat of Trash], [[All Things Considered]], [[NPR]], July 17, 2007</ref>

The large compactors in [[garbage trucks]] can be dangerous for workers, and played a role in the [[Civil rights movement|US Civil Rights Movement]]. The 1968 [[Memphis sanitation strike]] took place when two [[waste collector|sanitation worker]]s were crushed to death in garbage compactors, after which 700 of their 1300 black coworkers decided to strike.<ref>{{citation |url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/memphis-sanitation-workers-strike |title=Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike |encyclopedia=King Encyclopedia |date=2 June 2017 |publisher=Stanford University |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128204325/https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/memphis-sanitation-workers-strike|archivedate=November 28, 2019 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>