Because we don't want potato peels and food debris chilling in the garbage can if we can help it. Because we're more efficient than you. Because freedom. Take your pick.
Yeah, no shit Sherlock, but the garbage bags don't always fill up in one day, and we don't want to waste the plastic, so instead of having nasty organic material that decays and stinks up our homes, we shove said organic material down the disposal and that's that.
garbage only comes 2 days a week where I am. If I put it outside, racoons get into it and tear it up... which then attracts mice. I can see not having a disposal in an apartment since you can just take the trash out whenever, but it's important in a suburb for what chakun just said.
'Only' 2 days a week? We have a recycling bin, a garden and food waste bin and an 'anything else' bin; the recycling and garden bin goes out one week the other bin goes out the next week; so a collection every week but each bin only gets emptied every other week.
Recycle comes once a week,we have blue bags for it; regular trash 2x a week, black or white bags. If a bag gets full we put it in the garage until trash night. My mom and grandma suck at closing the garage door, which has led to possums, raccoons and mice getting into the garage and tearing it up and then I have too clean it up. I now make sure the garage door is closed at like 7 so I don't have to deal with that crap anymore.
also at the start of the month they do bulk pickup... where you can just throw out whatever.
We don't have those big trash container things. At my dad's house in Tennessee they use those and they go out once a week.. where you just throw the trashbags in them and kind of wheel-barrel them to the curb. I hate those things; they start to stink fast, especially in summer.
Well a spoon goes about as well as you could imagine dropping one metal object into a blender. You can usually open up the bottoms though if you just dropped a ring or something in there.
Or... you don't go after it. Whatever it is, you've lost it forever. Why? That's how scary movies happen. There you are just innocently digging out your ring, no one is near the switch for the disposal and then... BAM! Your hand is shredded. Scary movie style, it takes your whole arm..
The sink at my house has an, interesting macerator. It actually got "In-Sink Erator" inscribed on it. (Which isn't even grammatically correct, but it IS american after all...)
It is actually just a rectangle block of metal that pushes stuff into the cheese grater like walls of the drain. So dropping something solid in would just result in a lot of noise and scratches.
Drop something precocious like a ring, and you simply reach in and pull it out.
It's rather nifty.
In-Sink-erator is just a bit of clever wordplay.
They also have approximately 95% of the global market share on garbage disposals. Most of the "alternate" brands of disposal units are actually rebranded Insinkerators, manufactured for them.
Kenmore, for example. They are actually Insinkerators.
We don't have those big trash container things. At my dad's house in Tennessee they use those and they go out once a week.. where you just throw the trashbags in them and kind of wheel-barrel them to the curb. I hate those things; they start to stink fast, especially in summer.
It is actually just a rectangle block of metal that pushes stuff into the cheese grater like walls of the drain. So dropping something solid in would just result in a lot of noise and scratches.
Drop something precocious like a ring, and you simply reach in and pull it out.
It's rather nifty.
They also have approximately 95% of the global market share on garbage disposals. Most of the "alternate" brands of disposal units are actually rebranded Insinkerators, manufactured for them.
Kenmore, for example. They are actually Insinkerators.