Waste disposal units - did they disappear with the 80's?

[YouLukaBeautiful]

There's only so much composting you can do isn't there?
We have a 'kitchen waste' collection once a week by the council but am getting fed up of them 'forgetting' to pick ours up!! I am fed up of living with mouldy food for a week the next collection day, or having to make a trip to the waste disposal site several miles away.
I have used a boksashi bran composter too but...
Anyway.... waste disposal units...does anyone have one? Are they any good? Are they an environmentally sound option? I'm about to have a new kitchen fitted. Should I get one?

[YouLukaBeautiful]

Help! Waste disposal lovers or haters, or simply not carers, please help. Do I buy or not?
Everyone in the 80's had one, except us.
Now I don't know anyone with one. Is that because they are useless or just out of fashion?
Surely they should be in fashion in our environmentally aware times? Or are the work of the evil himself?
hopeful

[cmotdibbler]

In my area you can get a council grant to fit one, so they must be greenish.

We like our Bokashi bins though...

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

I don't know how they work.

Doesn't the waste just have to be emptied into something else? So you still have the collection issue.

Or is that not what happens?

Where does the stuff go?

[cmotdibbler]

It grinds the food waste up and it goes down the drain with the sink water

[MrsSprat]

I've got one, I like it as I live in a flat. Don't think it's particularly enviro-sound though - as it's extra gunk in the sewage to get sorted at the water treatment works; but hey I do other green-things to compensate.

[LittleMissNorty]

I got one when I had my kitchen refitted last year and I love it.

We don't compost as we have an artifical garden (artifical grass and plants in pots) so it was the answer for us. Cost about £100 and got our kitchen fitter to put it in and the electrician wired it up.

[YouLukaBeautiful]

Thankyou!!!
The only bit of googling I've done says that the waste is helpful at the other end as a fertilizer product and that the organic waste filters are effective for this. (so don't worry MrsSprat)
I think I may invest!

Wow Littlemissnorty, that is a truly artificial garden!

[LittleMissNorty]

Don't think you'll regret it.....no more smelly bins!

Garden is great....no mowing and can disinfect at will so is safe for animals and DCs