Your Garbage Disposal – a Green Recycling Machine

Your garbage disposal is more than a convenience; it’s a green machine that recycles food waste and prevents health and environmental hazards.

Food scraps account for 10-to-20 percent of all household waste. If bagged and disposed of in landfills, it converts to methane, a greenhouse gas harmful to the atmosphere. If burned to generate power, food scraps are inefficient because they’re about 70 percent water.

The best way to dispose of food scraps is to grind them up and flush them into sewer systems designed to process human waste. Modern wastewater plants process organic solids into fertilizer products, which recycle them for productive use.

Garbage disposers also provide other significant benefits:

• Health – keeping food out of trash keeps away rodents and other pests
• Energy saving – fewer trucks hauling food waste to landfills
• Energy efficient – food waste disposers use only about 50 cents-worth of electricity per year

How to Use and Maintain Your Garbage Disposal

The problem isn’t getting people to use garbage disposals; it’s getting them to use them the right way.

The food disposers installed in most homes aren't capable of handling large loads all at once. Nor are they especially good at processing potato peels, celery, corn cobs, turkey dressing and bones.

To keep your disposal running right, and your sink from stopping up, follow these simple guidelines:

• Run the disposer along with a moderate-to-strong flow of cold water. Continue to run cold water for 15 seconds after grinding is complete to carry the waste out of your pipes and into the sewer.
• Don't overload the disposal by attempting to grind too much at a time. It's better to have a steady follow of smaller amounts than to fill the sink with food waste before flipping the switch.
• Avoid using hot water when grinding food waste, as it will make it easier for any grease to move through the pipe and solidify later. It's alright to drain hot water into the disposer between grinding periods.
• Don't pour grease or fat into your disposer or drain.
• Run ice cubes through your disposal to sharpen the blades.
• Use a disposer cleaner to clear up bad odors caused by build-up, or grind citrus fruit peels to freshen up the drain area. 
• Disposers may be cleaned with Disposer Care®. This product is available in major home centers, hardware and grocery stores.

We Offer InSinkErator® – the #1 Selling Garbage Disposal

InSinkErator has made more than 100 million food waste disposers in its nearly 80 years of operation. Now, the company has put everything it has learned from all that experience into disposers that grind even the most challenging food waste – including bones – and do it quietly.

The disposals installed in most homes simply can’t handle things such as potato peels and celery without clogging up, and you’re likely to damage them or seize them up if you put chicken or rib bones in them.

The InSinkErator Evolution Series™ disposers will really spoil you. They grind more stuff – including rib and chick bones, potato peels, artichoke leaves and pineapple tops – and make 60 percent less noise doing it. Click here to see a series of short videos that explain why InSinkErator is the choice of millions.

If your garbage disposal just can’t cut it anymore, or if you’re tired of having to baby it and set food scraps out for trash collection, give us a call. The InSinkErator Evolution series performance will make you wonder why you didn’t do this years ago.

Call us today at 817-481-5869 or contact us online for more details.