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Resident asks whether kitchen disposers help or hinder sustainability; committee to ask wastewater staff
Summary
A committee member asked whether household in-sink food disposers are preferable to home composting, noting the answer depends on the town wastewater treatment facility's handling of solids; committee will ask the water pollution control superintendent for a formal answer.
A committee member raised a technical question about whether residential in-sink food disposers (insinkerators) are more sustainable than home composting, and the group agreed the correct answer depends on how the town’s wastewater treatment plant treats the collected solids.
The member explained that if a wastewater facility filters out solids and ships them to a landfill, using an in-sink…
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