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?

  • Em Adespoton
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    1111 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Garbage disposal is really not a very intuitive name. Always confused me as a kid. I like “garbeurator” but I also had no idea what it meant when I saw it. We need an objectively transparent name for these things! “In-sink masticator?”

      • themeatbridge
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        1011 months ago

        One of the popular brands is the insinkerator. I always thought that was a good name for it.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          For a long time as a kid I thought those were In-sink Erators, and that an Erator was something that blended garbage.

          I distinctly remember telling a plumber my parents had called “I think its the erator” and him just nodding and smiling 😅

      • Em Adespoton
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        211 months ago

        I’ve got all the wiring etc. for one, but chose not to install, opting for municipal composting instead. The odd time that I need to macerate, I just run stuff through my blender.