a plastics waste processor is provided for efficiently compacting and melting plastics waste , so as to form easily disposable compact plastic units having a volume considerably smaller than the unprocessed plastics waste . the plastics waste processor has a waste containment chamber , a rotating chamber door , a jam breaker bar to facilitate opening of the door when jammed by melted plastic waste , pneumatically driven waste compaction means with plastic shedding rams , a waste containment chamber heating system , a processor temperature monitoring means , a cooling means , and a control means . further a cable and hose management system is provided for protection of moving cables and hoses , as well as a washdown system for automatic cleaning of the processor .