This caught my eye, place I found it there were comments trying to figure out it if was satire or not. Yes it involves a politician, but it’s not political . . .
Now I’ve been living in apartments since the 1980’s. I can think of maybe one that didn’t have a garbage disposal . . . and that two rooms had been converted into an apartment.
“OK everyone I need your help because I just moved into this apartment a few months ago and I just flipped a switch and it made that noise and it scared the daylights out of me,”
I mean even a 3 room studio apartment I lived in (kitchen/dining room, bedroom/living room, bathroom) had a garbage disposal in it.
“I am told this is a garbage disposal. I’ve never seen a garbage disposal. I never had one in any place I’ve ever lived,”
Maybe it’s an out West thing. Maybe they are not as prevalent in the East. But really? Not knowing what a garbage disposal is???
In the 1970s, officials in New York City banned in-sink kitchen garbage disposals over concerns about aging sewer systems and discharge of raw organic refuse into nearby rivers.
City officials lifted the ban on garbage disposers in 1997. Twenty years later, though, their adoption is slower here than almost anywhere else in the country. Why are New Yorkers so reluctant to install garbage disposers—and what’s at stake if we continue to dispose all of our trash curbside?
This is why it was in this sub forum. Here in Utah, it’s hard to find a place without a garbade disposal. Places I lived in Arizona and New Mexico also had them.
I will give A.O.C. a pass on this, as per previous comment and link. I don’t give her a pass on very much, but I will give her on this.
Having lived almost exclusively on properties with septic systems, I have always had garbage disposers, but I have been extremely anal retentive on any and everything that goes down into them.
Certain things are allowed down the disposal, but much stuff goes to compost.
And never be cheap when buying a disposal. Splurge for the high power one.
In the 1970s, officials in New York City banned in-sink kitchen garbage disposals over concerns about aging sewer systems and discharge of raw organic refuse into nearby rivers.
City officials lifted the ban on garbage disposers in 1997. Twenty years later, though, their adoption is slower here than almost anywhere else in the country. Why are New Yorkers so reluctant to install garbage disposers—and what’s at stake if we continue to dispose all of our trash curbside?
