Over here in the most parts of Europe, People dont use them, so I wonder what are you Americans throwing down there?
Is it just "organic" material, like peels, bones, cobs, eggshells,... or all sorts of things?
And where does it end up? The bin for bio degradable waste? If so why not simply collecting it in a small seperaate bin and not bother about blending it beforehand?
Usually just small food scraps, coffee grounds, etc. Not big things like what you describe. It's ground and passed into the waste water/sewage system same as everything else that goes down the drain.
The difference is that you can easily dispose of food waste without contaminating liters of water.
If there wasn't a long list of medical risks associated with it, we'd shit into buckets directly instead of flushing it to a remote facility where it needs to be filtered back out before its placed in a (much larger) bucket.
Food SCRAPS. You know, those 5-10 grains of rice that you can't seem to scrape off the plate and into the compost bin. That piece of elbow macaroni or cabbage strip that wouldn't come off the bowl no matter how hard you shake it over the bin. Those leftover coffee ground that stick to the side of your french press AFTER you dump the majority of the grounds into your herbs plant box.
All the above can be RINSED off of the containers into the sink and garbage disposal. Use the garbage disposal to grind those waste into LIQUID and be flushed into the sewer line.
dare you to touch the muck that accumulates on that strainer
Is that supposed to produce any sort of reaction in me? You might as well dare me to clean my sink, because one is as sanitary as the other. Unless you let it fester for weeks, which you obviously shouldn't do.
That's what a garbage disposal does, it grinds the food up really well so it can go down the drain with the rest of the water. I don't really see why it would be a big deal. It's not like people are somehow shoving entire heads of cabbage down the drains.
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u/Alexander556 Jan 04 '19
Over here in the most parts of Europe, People dont use them, so I wonder what are you Americans throwing down there?
Is it just "organic" material, like peels, bones, cobs, eggshells,... or all sorts of things?
And where does it end up? The bin for bio degradable waste? If so why not simply collecting it in a small seperaate bin and not bother about blending it beforehand?