How Garbage-Disposals Help The Environment
For decades, the lowly garbage disposal is picking up some new fans outside the U.S. Environmental engineers and local government planners in Europe and Asia have been lobbied by InSinkErator, a Racine, Wis., unit of Emerson Electric Co. in the hope of altering the perception that garbage disposals are a water-guzzling convenience that can clog pipes and overtax sewage-treatment plants.
The green strategy has helped InSinkErator to nearly double its world-wide sales in the past decade to close to $500 million annually. InSinkErator has pitched disposals as an especially good fit in densely populated Europe, since the devices could help reduce congestion from garbage trucks.
fter studying disposal use in the United Kingdom, John Henry Looney, an independent environmental consultant based in Maisemore, England, became an advocate of the devices for urban areas. “You reduce the garbage runs and the carbon footprint, which is important,” he says.
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