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?
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
So basically a macerator on your sink crushing garbage to go down the sewage pipe?
What an astonishingly terrible idea.
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.
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.
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.
Apparently it’s a Canadian term
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.
I have never heard garbage disposal called that before
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.
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.
It kinda varies depending on the citys municipal system. Wastewater systems are built with this in mind so they usually have a few different means of using this waste as energy. Some plants have methods to create CNG from the organic matter. Most plants collect the organics, treat it and use it in agriculture.
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.
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.
