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I am making a can crusher and I'm hoping I can make it portable so I can bring it around town to pick up and crush trash and cans. This is the design I want to use but it might be too complicated so it isn't final.

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I've begun picking up cans and trash where ever I see them. I forgot to take a picture of the trash I found, sadly. My plan is still viable but it would be really hard and I would need to be able to code the button to do what I want so I don't think that will be possible.

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I've come up with a new plan that I think will be a little less complicated. This is a bottle jack that you can use to lift cars but when you push the opposite way, it pushes down on whatever is inside of it.

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We decided on a final design. It's a lot simpler than I would like but it's the only thing we can use and it is not portable. Using the power of leverage, a 2x4 can easily crush a can.

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We have assembled the can crusher. It's a little bit big but it works. one problem we are having is the wood is being dented by the cans so we are working on that but otherwise the can crusher is working great.

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This is the amount of cans I have crushed so far. This is from my house but it also includes the cans I found on the ground around town. In total, there are about 27 cans here and about a fourth of them are from the ground, which is good because that means that we don't have many litterers in the neighborhood.

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We have improved the can crusher. My grandfather found a little scrap piece of metal that was the perfect size for the can crusher. As you can see, it has already been used several times and shows no signs of denting or breaking or anything.

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This is how many more cans I have found. There are around 50-ish cans here and about a third of them are from the ground. Most of the ones I found on the ground are from way out of town so still no litterbugs in Saginaw.

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I didn't have any pictures this week but I found 3 pieces of trash on the ground this week from what I can remember. Me and my grandfather are trying to work out a way to get the can crusher to be portable because I have to bring it to Evening with the Experts so hopefully that will be done soon.

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This week I didn't find any trash on the ground which is actually very good! Saginaw is a good town to live in I guess. I am thinking about painting the can crusher black and giving it a name like The Crusher or something. Those will be finishing touches though since they are purely cosmetic.

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We added some washers to the top of the 2x4 because the nuts were denting the top of the wood after crushing so many cans. I found around 7 pieces of trash this week, all of which were cups from restaurants.

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I have decided that the name of my can crusher is going to be "Squash". This is mainly because my favorite game is Plants Vs Zombies and the squash makes any zombie flat as a pancake.

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We have made it portable!!! I will be able to bring it to school. We are still debating whether or not I should paint it and add a name but if we don't paint it then it's finally complete!

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I didn't get any pictures but we found the paint that we are going to use. So far it's just going to be black but I'm hoping I can paint the name on it too.