Indian Railways are a large source of plastic waste in the form of PET bottles (drinking water), food packaging, tumblers and cups etc. Part of the waste is collected and sold to recyclers; large amount of waste gets strewn on the rails or littered inside and outside the coaches. Plastics are light in weight but rather voluminous and any attempts of collection of the waste get hampered because of difficulty in transporting the voluminous waste. ICPE have devised a compactor that can be used to reduce this volume by compacting so that transportation becomes relatively easier.