I feel in the suburbs where you have cookie cutter houses that all have garburators it must add a little bit of load. How does it compare to municipally run composting?
What’s a garburstor?
I assume it’s a garbage disposal, I’ve never heard the term either though.
I hadn’t heard the term either but wikipedia says you’re correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal_unit
So basically a macerator on your sink crushing garbage to go down the sewage pipe?
What an astonishingly terrible idea.
It’s great if you don’t abuse it, it’s not intended for anything big. Little bits of stuff in the bottom of your sink? Rinse and turn the motor on.
I don’t really have any faith at all in people’s ability not to abuse things. Especially something like this that magically makes physical problems disappear.
I mean that’s where the hand/chicken bones inside the garburator trope comes in with horror movies and sitcoms
Think of it as similar to composting. Food is broken up and has a chance to decompose, rather than be sealed forever in a landfill.
Or maybe think of it as similar to pooping. Semi-digested food goes down the drain and gets a chance to decompose or recycled to fertilizer
Y’all don’t have specific kitchen and/or garden waste bins? Over here we have one, along with a bin for non-recyclables and more and more often one for plastics.
Currently some of us can pay for a composting service, but everyone can use a dispos-all to “pre digest” food scraps and feed it down the drain. Also, composting as a service is fairly new, whereas dispos-alls have been around since before I was born. Granted we also composted for our own garden when I was a kid
Wait, it’s a separate service? For me it has always been part of the garbage collection tax. You get a couple of bins and a collection schedule. If you’re unlucky, you also pay per bin emptied depending on your municipality. It’s not really a choice not to have the service, as it is part of living in the municipality you live in. Fun to learn how things that are so normal to me can be so different in other places!
Apparently it’s a Canadian term
Follow up question, does WM do sewage in Canada? Here they just pick up trash cans/recycling.
It’s what we call them in Canada!
Of course it is. You guys are cute.
I’m Canadian and Ive never heard this term before. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a house with a compactor either.
I knew this because of ‘How I met your mother’!
It kinda varies depending on the citys municipal system. Wastewater systems are built with this in mind so they usually have a few different means of using this waste as energy. Some plants have methods to create CNG from the organic matter. Most plants collect the organics, treat it and use it in agriculture as fertilizer.
Composting is where it’s at.
They shouldn’t, it is just breaking up the material earlier. I imagine if people went out of their way to use it more it could make things worse but I would bet on the units dying before it made a difference. Chances are you have one on your block already if it a built up area, just underground where you cant see it.
Already bigger apartment buildings are having to install them.
