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
It’s what we call them in Canada!
So basically a macerator on your sink crushing garbage to go down the sewage pipe?
What an astonishingly terrible idea.
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 as fertilizer.
Yes they do.more solids to filter out costs money. Someone has to pay for it…
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/the-environmental-case-for-the-garbage-disposal]
(discussion of environmental impact of in-sink garbage disposal units)
Not bad, because you have to compare it to the environmental cost of moving the waste somewhere in a truck. If you can compost it at home and use the compost obviously that’s better.
