I recently wrote about our new gaburator aka food waste disposal. It is an Insinkerator® Badger® 5 (Model 5-86) half HP unit that was bought on sale and installed as a DIY project. We have had food waste disposal units in two of our owned homes as well as our vacation home. A food waste disposal is a wonderful asset when doing a lot of cooking and home canning especially in an urban setting. Don't get me wrong as a food disposal unit is not meant to see how much food you can put down it, it is meant as a tool to help you manage kitchen waste.
As you can see, the food waste disposal does take up a bit of room in the cabinet under the sink but really it isn't too bad. There is still plenty of room for storage. I don't keep a lot under the sink to begin with.
The garbage bin is part of a recycling series of bins available at Home Hardware. The flip lids are colour coded as to the type of recycle material to put in. We only had room for the one bin which is fine as our larger recycle bins are in the attached garage just off the landing. The food waste disposal in combination with the compost bin, black box and blue box has reduced our actual waste that goes to the curb to mainly packaging that can't be recycled and bones. The larger bones go to our friend's dog so at least they don't go into the waste.
I processed 10 dozen ears of corn shortly after the food waste disposal was installed so it wasn't a good week to judge our waste reduction. Still we didn't have a full pail of garbage at the curb which was down from our normal but in fairness we are still unpacking and decluttering so there is a bit more waste than normal. Last week I did a bushel of peaches and started tomatoes. I put out less than a full kitchen bag of actual waste to the curb for this morning's waste collection. I still want to reduce further. More on that to come...
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