Waste disposals...any thoughts?

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Dh and i are going to book our new kitchen next week and are now debating over having a waste disposal. Have have heard one positive and one negative side to having them. Please can i get a few more opinions on this before we decide. Are they worth it, do they break easily etc...

no just throw the food away.

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I have one
It's a waste of time
Just means you mince up food and put it down the drain when it should go in the bin

The one in our old house was fab. When we moved and built an extension we redid the kitchen and got an insinkerator waste disposal here. It is complete and utter CRAP.

The amount of times we have to take all the pipework out to undo the blockage is unreal. I cut out more and more things that I don't put down there anymore but it still doesn't seem to help (and the "benefits" are less and less because I'm having to use the bin for most stuff now!)

I'd never EVER have one again.

Thinking of switching to a bokashi system, but have nowhere to put the results at the end as our garden is really small and have no flowerbeds to speak of

TheBlonde: that's kind of the point? Reducing stuff that goes to landfill (when the damn thing WORKS that is)

but it will just go into the sewage works and block up pipes?

They can't be that bad - the local council subsidize the damn things as part of their environment being green strategy thing.

i really don't get them and have no experience of them but they don't make sense to me.

surely even if you grind up the food to the finest it will still make the waste water stodgy. am i missing something?

Ethical Living: Is it OK to use a food waste disposer

it sounds good in theory, but i worry as the pipes around here are very old.

We've found the reverse Our old house (well ... 60s construction) had older, bigger pipes and coped better. Modern houses seem to have much narrower pipes with sharper bends or something, which dh thinks is the main problem.

Really annoying because I loved our old one. sigh.

i live in a 60s house and the pipes are bigger but as i live in a clay area they do move.

i imagine modern pipes are really badly made.
the water board are replacing loads of pipes here.

i have unblocked many a pipe in my time, they're too narrow to cope with much.

(lol at us discussing pipes)

Thank you all. The enviromental issue was something we we're looking into too. Hmmmmm? Doesn't sound that friendly!
Thank you again for your time