Food Disposers - Why You Should Use Them

Dec 22
12:13

2010

Kristin J. Thorne

Kristin J. Thorne

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Food disposers are modern kitchen appliances, that provide a new way to manage food waste, and for many years, they have been essential appliances in US, and UK as well.

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They can be quite handy tools for households since the wastes often clog up the drain pipes. Instead of throwing the leftovers into the waste bin,Food Disposers - Why You Should Use Them Articles you use the food disposer to grind it up and flush it out with the water into the sewage system.

You can easily grind almost all kinds of food, everything from veggie peels to fish- and chicken bones. Having a disposer in your kitchen is really a fast, ecologically effortless method to clear away the food waste in your house.

The food disposers are set up under the kitchen sink and attached to the drain. With a stream of cold water from the kitchen tap, it is switched on by touching a control button. Only seconds later, the disposer effortlessly grinds the waste to fine particles that are purged out of the grind chamber and in to the sewage or septic system.

Among the advantages of using food disposers in your kitchen are, that they reduce the every day chores of taking out the rubbish, and having to disinfect the rubbish bins. They also improve hygiene as there is no attraction to insects, because there are no smells or scraps. And bear in mind, that decomposing food waste serves as a breeding ground for all kinds of bacteria!

Food disposers are an environmentally friendly method of getting rid of food waste. They help lessen landfills as well as groundwater contamination. Did you know that food waste represents 16% of all waste materials being dumped in to landfills? Bacterias from these decomposing food items develop harmful elements, which are the main source of groundwater contamination. So food disposers give back to the earth.

As we have discussed here above, food disposers can be a real asset in your household, as they help you keep your kitchen clean, and they reduce the amount of garbage you need to throw into the waste bin. And last, but not least, they contribute immensely to the environment by lessening the amount of garbage thrown away, and reducing contamination of our groundwater.