A More Hygienic and Convenient Alternative to Food Waste Disposal

When you’ve got a busy family life you possibly feel you spend endless time emptying food waste into your brown bin which becomes smelly and mucky!

Luckily, there is an alternative to that grubby method and it comes in the form of a food waste disposer.

Believe it or not, food waste disposers are only now starting to grow in popularity in England and many people believe they are new appliances but they’ve been around for forever in the USA.

With more advanced technology today’s InSinkErator models are super-efficient, provide a convenient, clean and hygienic method of getting rid of unwanted food and they save you valuable time.

With more advanced technology today’s InSinkErator models are super-efficient, provide a convenient, clean and hygienic method of getting rid of unwanted food and they save you valuable time.

There’s no doubt that every kitchen should have one and with one of the InSinkErator models correctly fitted by an Installation Engineer you know you’ll have years of continued mess-free use and a manufacturer’s guarantee.

Still not convinced? Here are some interesting figures:

• Food waste equates to 20% of your household rubbish
• UK households thrown away £15 billion worth of food waste annually
• Average UK household wastes £470 of food a year
• UK households throw away 15 million tonnes a year
• More housebuilders than ever before are installing food waste disposers as standard in new kitchens because of their positive environmental impact

Improve Your Health

Unfortunately, as you probably know, there is a health risk attached to rotting waste. In some areas bin collections are made every 3 weeks so if you throw away food on a Monday afternoon and your bin isn’t collected until the following three weeks it can lead to bacteria growing and spreading, unwanted pests and can be a health hazard for you and your family.

Be Kinder to the Environment

Of course, when your food waste is collected you probably don’t worry about it again but it ends up on landfill where it starts to decompose. This can release Methane gas which is devastating to the ozone layer.

Easy to Install and Use

Waste disposers are easy to fit, they sit in a large plug hole in the sink and when you want to throw away food waste, (vegetables, meat, small bones, dairy items etc.) you simply put the food waste into the sink, turn the cold water tap on, allow it to run and switch the food waste disposer on.
There’s no mess and no smell but the biggest bonus is there’s no food rotting away in your bins! We bet we’ve got your attention now but you might want to know how a food waste disposer works.

We’ve broken it down into bite size chunks (excuse the pun) so you understand the technology:

• Run cold water into the sink area that houses your food waste disposer
• Empty the food into the waste disposer area
• Switch the waste disposer on
• The food starts to travel into the disposer unit where impellers spin around on a plate forcing the food against a grind ring (you can also guide food down gently using a scrubbing brush or similar but never push it too far down)
• The grind ring is what is responsible for breaking the food up into tiny pieces
• The water flushes the food waste down the waste disposal into the pipes where it travels to your waste water treatment plant, where it is converted into fertiliser or energy
• Once the grinding is complete leave the cold water to run for another few moments to flush out the waste.

Hygienic and Clean

To summarise the article, here are the few benefits an InSinkErator food waste disposer will provide you with:

• No need to empty the food bin!
• No need to keep rotting food waste in your kitchen!
• No more bad odours in your kitchen.
• No risk of the bin falling on the floor and emptying its content

There’s no doubt an InSinkErator Food Waste Disposer makes light of messy work. Choose the best InSinkErator model for your kitchen needs and enjoy a cleaner, fresher, convenient kitchen