You probably spend almost no time thinking about the disposal in your kitchen sink right up until the garbage disposal is not working. Just as soon as that sink drain backs up, figuring out how to fix ...

Derek Walczak is a licensed general contractor located in Ipswich, MA. Together with his wife and business partner, Lisa, Derek owns and operates Walczak Design and Build, a design-build collaborative ...

This photo provided by InSinkErator shows a variety of InSinkErator's food disposal systems. Wastewater and environment experts agree that the environmental value of kitchen disposal systems depends ...

Once you’ve used a garbage disposal, it can be hard to do dishes without one. The best garbage disposals allow you to skip the step of scraping used dishes in the trash, instead grinding up leftovers, ...

Trash cans are kind of gross. You keep a container of food waste and plastic wrappers in the kitchen, and it starts to smell. Garbage disposals are supposed to alleviate the smelly trash problem. They ...

Convenient? Absolutely. Legal? So far, yes. But kitchen sink disposals rank low on the list of ways Vermonters should steer their food scraps out of landfills to comply with a state law that takes ...

The term “garbage disposal” is really a bit of a misnomer. If you’ve ever had one, you probably know that you can’t run random garbage through it. Instead, they’re designed to grind up and dispose of ...

"Keep in mind that when food is added to the wastewater system, it must be further treated," says Maggie Sauerhage, a spokeswoman for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency. She suggests learning ...

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