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Station Trash Compactor & Cargo Packing

Interactive 3D bin-packing simulator: watch a space station's daily trash get compacted and shelf-packed into a disposal cargo vehicle, with live volume utilization, mass loaded, and a days-until-full countdown.

Space & Astronomy3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
space-waste-management ↗ Open standalone

Every day a space station's crew produces a stream of dry trash — food packaging, wipes, used filters — that has to be compacted and shelf-packed into a disposal cargo vehicle before it undocks and burns up on re-entry. This simulator generates that daily waste stream from a crew-size and per-person rate you control, compacts each bag by an adjustable ratio, and packs the resulting bags into a 3D cargo bay using a real first-fit shelf-packing heuristic, with live readouts for volume utilization, mass loaded, and a days-until-full countdown to departure.

⚙ Under the hood

Generate a space station's daily trash from crew size and waste rate, compact it, and watch it get shelf-packed into a disposal cargo vehicle with live volume, mass, and days-until-full readouts.

space stationwaste managementbin packingISScargo logisticslife support

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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