Comment on Do garburators put excess strain on waste management?

• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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