Do garburators put excess strain on waste management?
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?
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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
It's what we call them in Canada!
Of course it is. You guys are cute.
I knew this because of 'How I met your mother'!
I'm Canadian and Ive never heard this term before. I don't think I've ever seen a house with a compactor either.
So basically a macerator on your sink crushing garbage to go down the sewage pipe?
What an astonishingly terrible idea.
You're supposed to use it to annihilate leftover food matter stuck to your plate which was scrubbed off, not dispose of a body.
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!
Every municipality is different so I’m sure there is no certain answer …
Mine has better service than anyone I know. It’s all covered by taxes (vs per bag fees in many places), and they’ll take pretty much anything. If it’s big or heavy, they prefer a call to send a flatbed, but they’ll take it. They’ll take recycling and Christmas trees and yardwaste, and will even vacuum up leaves in the fall. When everyone was transitioning away from CRT TVs, my town was one of very few to take it without a fee. They have hazardous waste drop off without a fee. They’re just really good….. but composting is an extra service I’d have to pay for
It would be breaking it up, chances are if you live in an urban area there is one on your block underground. Sewage is chopped up to make it flow easier and to speed up processing.
Apparently it's a Canadian term
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/garburator
Follow up question, does WM do sewage in Canada? Here they just pick up trash cans/recycling.
I'm honestly not sure. I used the term because I wasn't sure if black and grey water are always treated the same so I wasn't sure if sewage treatment would fit. I think wastewater is the general term.
I think it's usually two separate services both owned typically by the city.