Nice new twist to an old idea. good work.

Not at all, as long as the rebate machines can recognize crushed cans then this would be a god send to all the folks that roam the streets collecting them. Somewhere down the line, machines waste energy compacting them, might as well get the humans to do so earlier in the cycle.

Y’know, it isn’t hard to crush a current can this exact way.

Err. Not sure on the loading on these as pressurised cans. I can see pallettes exploding, or mall displays crumbling. Plus a can does this anyway, if you stand on it.