PET BOTTLE COLLECTOR VEHICLE AND PET BOTTLE COLLECTING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pet bottle collector vehicle and a pet bottle collecting method performing, in place of an intermediate processing site as in the past, a collecting process of a pet bottle. SOLUTION: In a pet bottle collector vehicle collecting a pet bottle, on a cargo bed C1 of a vehicle C, a processor 1 compression packaging the pet bottle is mounted, the processor 1 has a hopper 2 inputting the pet bottle, compression means 3 compressing the pet bottle supplied from the hopper 2, and a package means 4 packaging the pet bottle compressed by the compression means 3. The hopper 2 is formed in size capable of accumulating a plurality of the pet bottles collected from at least one collecting site, on the cargo bed C1, a conveyer inputting a pet bottle to the hopper 2 is provided. The processor 1 is operated by utilizing a drive source of the vehicle C. This constitution is formed so as to increase an engine speed of the drive source of the vehicle C only when the processor 1 is actuated. On the cargo bed C1, a storage means 6 is provided.