Results: An Analog to Can Crushers, but for Bottles

jlrake profile photo
jlrake

02/05/2026

88

1743

Products
1.
1.
Do you drink beverages from glass bottles--be it water, soda, beer, tea, smoothies, kombucha, coffee, or whatever else=-in your home and/or anywhere else you maintain possession of the bottles from which you drink?
Yes!
31%
535 votes
Once did; no longer do
19%
327 votes
Don't currently; may start (again)
8%
137 votes
No
41%
701 votes
2.
2.
Does it bother you that glass bottles are not only so much heavier, but bulkier, than other beverage containers, such as cans, and that they take up space in your garbage bags that could be better occupied by lighter, more compact trash?
Yes
25%
417 votes
Uncertain
16%
268 votes
No
34%
571 votes
Not Applicable
26%
444 votes
3.
3.
Would you be interrested in a device that grinds glass bottles (and jars and whever else) into a substance fine as or finer than sand? The glass in your trash would weigh as much as it had in its original form(s), but it would take up less space in a trash bag.
Yes
19%
320 votes
Undecided
25%
420 votes
No/Unconvinced
56%
960 votes
4.
4.
Would you be any more convinced as to the benefit of the invention I propose were the device capable of being placed directed above the top of a garbage can in order for the glass it would grind form a layer between other garbage, preventing (or so I'd hope) the ground glass from settling at the bottom of a trash bag?
Yes
17%
288 votes
Uncommitted
35%
595 votes
No
48%
817 votes
5.
5.
Would you want to see a device such as the one I propose powered by hand or by another energy source (plug-in, battery, etc.)?
By hand
9%
147 votes
Either/Both
26%
442 votes
Other energy source
9%
150 votes
Not Applicable
57%
961 votes

Comments