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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND food AND solid waste treatment and disposal AND waste
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Disposal Proposal
On garbage disposals |
Umbra Fisk |
27 Mar 2003 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra: When my garbage disposal died recently, I replaced it with a clever new design that uses no electricity (just water pressure), but it led me to wonder which is really kinder to the environment: putting kitchen waste in the disposal or just trashing it? I compost whenever possible, of course, but there are always scraps that are mixed with animal fat and shouldn't be added to a compost pile. How does the damage of this o ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, solid waste treatment and disposal, waste (all these topics) |
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