6/10 fair amount of sustainable home tech for WIRED, from smart bird feeders to indoor smart gardens, but I have never seen anything quite like Clear Drop’s Soft Plastic Compactor, or SPC. At 2.5 feet tall and made of stainless steel with a black lid, the 61-pound SPC could easily be mistaken for a trash can. It works much like a paper shredder, but seeing it in action is almost hypnotic, ASMR-adjacent. Press the Unlock button on the top control panel, and strong rollers will suck in your plastic, like dollar bills being fed into a change machine. (These rollers can be locked for the safety of curious children or pets.) Any plastic you can crumple in your hand is fair game—from bubble wrap and Amazon mailers to shrink-wrap and freezer bags. When the device sensors indicate it's full, the SPC will compact up to 3 pounds of material and fuse it into a block about the size of a shoebox.…