Submitted 1 year ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to [deleted]
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?
TIL that garburator is a regional term.
But considering NYC apparently banned them for several years until it was found that they didn’t damage the sewer system, probably not.
Interesting. I had no idea that they banned it. I guess it means my question wasn’t as silly as I thought
The sub exists for a reason, no such thing as a stupid question when it is legitimately in the pursuit of knowledge, no matter how trivial the knowledge may seem.
Yes they do.more solids to filter out costs money. Someone has to pay for it…
You’re not supposed to put extra stuff down the drain. It’s supposed to catch the incidental food waste stuck to platea that would otherwise go down whole.
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.
[bloomberg.com/…/the-environmental-case-for-the-ga…](discussion of environmental impact of in-sink garbage disposal units)
twistypencil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have never heard garbage disposal called that before
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 year 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.
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?”
TheTaj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Canadians have garbage cans. USians have trash cans. Just the way it is…
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Per Wikipedia They are in 3% of Canadian homes, and 50% of American homes.