The garbage disposal of the future
In-sink garbage disposal, as it stands, lacks elegance. One is cheffing around like a pro, then ... Wuuuooooorrrrrkkkjkjkjkjkjkjkssssshshhhhhh! So declassé!
Designer Anne Kitzmiller gives the humble appliance some modernist love, offering a custom-designed sink that uses "active touch" to ensure style and safety.
It even has an automatic, urinal-style waterfall to slosh away those potato skins. Kohler (who else?) will sell them.
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You do know that it's earth day? Maybe we could find something better to do with that organic matter then wash it down the sink...
Nice design though.
Nice industrial design, but...
Talk to a sewage-treatment engineer sometime. They _HATE_ in-sink disposal units. Their systems are set up to process material which has been ... uhm... predigested; throwing nontrivial amounts of raw foodstuffs into the stream throws the mix of nutrients off balance and causes significant trouble at the plant.
Vegetable trimmings and the like should be composted. (If you're in an apartment, websearch "worm box") Meats and fats and bones should be tossed in the trash, not down the drain.
If someone comes up with a reasonable way to feed an in-sink grinder into a composting system, and/or a composting system that can deal with animal products, _that_ would be interesting.