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Going One Step Greener with Food Waste Disposers
Millions of tons of solid waste ends up in landfills each year in the form of food scraps that are disposed of in residential and commercial trash bins around the world. We are a planet of consumers, and your household is likely no different. You may already reduce, reuse, and recycle – but where do you dispose of your food waste? A food waste disposer can provide you with environmentally responsible way for your family to manage the food waste and food scraps that accumulate daily in your trash.
Reducing Your ‘Carbon Footprint’ with a Food Waste Disposer
Food waste can have a huge impact on the environment. Food waste that is tossed into your regular trash eventually makes its way to the landfill, where it begins to decompose rapidly. During decomposition, food waste begins to produce methane, which is a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat into the atmosphere (the greenhouse effect). Food waste also releases leachate, an acidic liquid residue that seeps into ground water, causing water pollution. The environmental cost of transporting food waste to the landfill also ties into your overall ‘carbon footprint’ because the trucks used to haul food waste also release carbon emissions.
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