Comment on Do garburators put excess strain on waste management?

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  As a Canadian, I’ve never heard it called a Garbage Disposal before. Garbage disposal here is done by two guys and a truck once a week.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Garbage disposal is really not a very intuitive name. Always confused me as a kid. I like “garbeurator” but I also had no idea what it meant when I saw it. We need an objectively transparent name for these things! “In-sink masticator?”

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      One of the popular brands is the insinkerator. I always thought that was a good name for it.

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      • tapdattl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        For a long time as a kid I thought those were In-sink Erators, and that an Erator was something that blended garbage.

        I distinctly remember telling a plumber my parents had called “I think its the erator” and him just nodding and smiling 😅

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  • TheTaj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Canadians have garbage cans. USians have trash cans. Just the way it is…

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  • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Per Wikipedia They are in 3% of Canadian homes, and 50% of American homes.

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I’ve got all the wiring etc. for one, but chose not to install, opting for municipal composting instead. The odd time that I need to macerate, I just run stuff through my blender.

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      • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Municipal composting is great. For anyone with a yard, home composting is the new hotness.

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