If you don’t have a garbage disposal at your house, you should. There are plenty of green benefits to installing and running a garbage disposal.
Garbage disposals keep trash out of landfills. You may think, well, it’s just old food, but stuck at the bottom of a landfill, old food can still take a while to decompose and it also is one of the major factors contributing to the smell at the dump.
Garbage disposals are fast, meaning people are more likely to use them, which in turns means less trash tossed.
Garbage disposals help you to recycle. If you toss cardboard or an old can in the trash, then later realize this, are you more likely to dig it out if the trash isn’t full of icky wet tossed food? Yeah, you are.
A side benefit of the garbage disposal is that it makes your whole kitchen smell better – no gross old food rotting away in the can.
Your other option when it comes to food scraps is a compost pile outside, or a kitchen compost bin inside. Both are great options, especially if you’re an avid gardener, but overall, for non-gardening folks, a garbage disposal is a great green tool. Make sure your next kitchen comes equipped with one, or if your current kitchen is missing one consider installing a new disposal.