Using your disposal to rid your kitchen of peelings, table scraps, and even food gone bad, instead of tossing them into the trash can has many healthy and environmental advantages. Changing our everyday habits are always a challenge, but when you don’t have to spend any money or extra time to change something for the better, it makes it easier and sometimes leads to even bigger and better change! So, I submit to you to simply use your disposal!!
Every year in America we toss between 20 and 30 Million TONS of trash into our landfills! This amount of trash could easily be put into our disposal and never see the landfill. Food trash adds significantly to the landfill greenhouse gases that pollute our air. Many of our water treatment plants process our waste solids and convert them into energy or fertilizer – a much friendlier way to treat our trash than just filling our dump sites.
Closer to home, without food trash in your waste can, the odors in your kitchen can be relegated to your cooking! Less opportunities for pests or animals wanting to make a mess of a bag of trash, not to mention fewer insects strolling around looking for those scraps. For those of you who already compost most of your food scraps, putting your meat and dairy products into the disposal will finish off the great job you are doing. Up to 80% of all trash in our landfills could be recycled instead of thrown away! Let’s try to reduce that number by doing our best to change our trashy habits.
If you don’t have a disposal, they are easy to install and care for. Just turn on the cold water, turn on the unit, put your scraps in, turn of the unit, and then the water. You can clean the blades inside the unit by dropping a few ice cubes in while it is running. You can even grind up citrus peels to give a fresh scent to the sink area!!
Please feel free to call me any time about any question you have with this tip or anything else on your mind at 512.413.9281.
