A new start after 60: I was fed up with overflowing bins so I became a rubbish crusher

Eric McBean, living in Eccles, Greater Manchester, recognized the issue of overflowing bins in his building. After trialing a mobile compacting service, he faced redundancy at 59. Inspired by his entrepreneurial spirit, he initiated his own rubbish-compacting business named Squosh at 60. McBean leveraged a small pension and redundancy payout to buy necessary equipment, embodying the determination to pursue his lifelong dream of entrepreneurship despite earlier challenges in his career.

"He trialled a mobile compacting service in 2020 which proved effective but owing to a restructure, his role was made redundant a few years later."

"I cashed in a small private pension and, with his modest redundancy, at 60 bought a vehicle and machinery to start his own rubbish-compacting service: Squosh."

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