On May 11, 1:35 pm, ctbis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Charles Bishop) wrote:
> In article <68oemcF2t6j7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, go...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >ctbis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Charles Bishop) wrote:
>
> >>In article <hvu924dq4hvitue3knm2gtpqem1ajf0...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Reunite
> >>Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" <reunite.gondw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>[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.
Efficiency as in the ability to handle the volume -- solids in the
waste stream require settling ponds and fermenters (sorry, that's the
wrong name for the ponds that have the "useful" bacteria and/or
algae), and additional filtration. All of which a snap in low volume
situations, but can easily be overloaded in urban concentrations.
Plus more energy is required to run these facilities than is required
for a dump.
> 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.
Ah, but some sorting stations feed part of the waste to a composting
plant -- especially those places that have you put green waste in the
third barrel.
>
> waste stream = sewers and sewage treatment plants
>
> solid waste stream = garbage cans and trucks
/dps
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