Comments kendallgaia has made
garbage disposals?
- food scraps are not a "pollutant" to wastewater treatment plants, they are a resource; most sludge in the U.S. is now processed into fertilizer products, a millennium-old means of returning human/food waste to land; in NYC, effectively 100% is beneficially reused, most meeting EPA Class A standards...the richer the organic mix, the better the biosolids...
- solids actually help wastewater treatment plants operate efficiently, and many are good at efficient energy capture (esp when compared to landfills)...
- if you backyard or worm compost, that's great; but in dense urban areas municipal systems cause that to happen, and human waste/food scraps not really any different, after all...
- food scraps are not a "pollutant" to wastewater treatment plants, they are a resource; most sludge in the U.S. is now processed into fertilizer products, a millennium-old means of returning human/food waste to land; in NYC, effectively 100% is beneficially reused, most meeting EPA Class A standards...the richer the organic mix, the better the biosolids...
Dealing with Drought
You were right to put garbage disposals at the end; in the typical household, you should do ten other things to save lots more water than worrying about your disposer. Studies show typical household use attributed to a disposer is @ 1 gallon day, if it can be measured at all.... so fix leaks, take shorter showers, launder less, etc.
Also worth noting: food waste averages 70% water, so grinding and flushing it through a disposer releases that water back into the system vs. hauling it around in trucks from curbside to landfills.On Umbra on dishwashing and droughts posted 2 years, 1 month ago 10 Responses