In article <68oemcF2t6j74U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Charles Bishop) wrote:
>
>>In article <hvu924dq4hvitue3knm2gtpqem1ajf0oj4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Reunite
>>Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>[snip antecedents]
>>
>>>
>>>She has since relocated to New Jersey, where garbage disposals are
>>>illegal. That may not be entirely true, now that I think about it. It
>>>may only be her town or county that has outlawed them. However, her
>>>husband is very handy, so I have offered to send them a bootleg
>>>disposal for him to install.
>>
>>It may be the town's sewer system is old and they are trying to keep as
>>much solid material as they can out of the waste stream. Or it could be
>>because bureaucrats like saying "because I said so".
>
>I think that in one city where I've lived, they were mandatory in new
>home construction. In that case the city was trying to reduce the
>solid waste stream.
I was talking about keeping materials out of the sewer system, since
dealing with solid waste there costs money. Putting garbage that would go
down the disposal into the trash instead seems as if it would be more
efficient. Maybe not these days where the garbage doesn't go directly to
the dump where it is buried, but has to go to a sorting station first.
waste stream = sewers and sewage treatment plants
solid waste stream = garbage cans and trucks
--
charles
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