Talk:Garbage disposal unit

message: The Garburator and Garbage disposal pages clearly should be merged;  seeking input as to which way the merge should go.  I've never heard of a Garburator, but I'm not Canadian.  What are these things called in other parts of the English-speaking world? Bunchofgrapes 01:19, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and merged into "Garbage disposal", surely a more generic term. Bunchofgrapes 15:54, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

text: I agree that garburator should be there. It is certainly widely used in Ontario although I don't know about the rest of the country Canking 20:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For some reason it appears that the term was completely removed from this page. I've placed it back. It is, as others have pointed out, well in use throughout Ontario. Celynn (talk) 21:32, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: Particle size can be much bigger: 
https://iwaponline.com/wpt/article-abstract/8/2/202/21390/Food-Waste-Disposal-Units-and-their-possible?redirectedFrom=PDF  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.115.77.245 (talk) 08:31, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Particle size 

message: In American popular culture, there seem to be a lot of references to people putting their hand inside the unit and being injured.
This article could be improved by referring to that and the likelihood of that occurring.
:It stands to reason that putting your hand in a running garbage disposal would be a very bad idea.  If it would grind up garbage, it would probably grind up your hand.  On the other hand, the fact that it is possible to stick your hand in it may mean that the manufacturers make them safe somehow.  It would be interesting if anyone can point to any documentation one way or the other. --WhiteDragon 02:34, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See also Talk:Garbage disposal#Safety --89.14.147.102 (talk) 15:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular Culture

message: The current text conducts clearly surreptitious advertising, as it uses and repeats advertising messages from just one vendor without any criticsm. Moreover this partially tendencious text is beeing citated by authors from other languages. E.g. the English text mentions that the Food Waste Disposer uses blades. Maybe the new products from this vendor use blades, but the majority of almost any FWD in the world has no blades. Also the text makes the reader believe that only one special sort of motor makes sense. Anybody that knows what it's all about know that this constitutes a doubtless case of surreptitious advertising. Both sorts of motors are working perfectly in 99% of the cases. However: If I would have the choice, I would use a motor that does not block when the grinding chamber is being filled with kitchen waste. The text should be edited as soon as possible. Please note that not all corrections of wrong and tendentious texts are "vandalism".
Wikipedia should not be a PR outlet of big companies that mislead consumers.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.227.12.143 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 7 August 2007 
:Yes, it's (now:was!) turning into an ad. The least we could do is say for every "some products can...", "XYZ's products have a different manner...", which is an encyclopedia's way - same is done for any product, cars, you name it. No shops must be in the references, but the companies' pages I read sometimes don't; secondary sources are preferred, of course. At least, that way the blades-story could be corrected, since there are apparantly hardly ever blades in GDs. It's mostly the rotating plate with sharp holes at its side, only that one product with a piston that has steel blades (HydroMaid). So, that's different, with the others, the inventor (InSinkErator?) may be mentioned of course, but should that not be it? The motor, however, does not convince me to be as important. --FlammingoHey 23:38, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So the problem is solved now, right? All removed?--FlammingoHey 08:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surreptitious advertising (solved)

message: Would someone familiar with the topic please write a short section about safety?  Especially in a household with children. --Una Smith (talk) 16:20, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. I find it very strange that this article does not have an extensive "Safety" section, especially since US people are world famous for suing everyone and everything if there is even the *slightest* chance that some tool or utility poses even a remote risk of endangering or hurting the user or others - even or especially when such harm is caused by unbelievable stupid actions on the part of the user. (Sorry, but I just couldn't resist). Sarcasm aside - this article definitely needs *some* form of explanation on how dangerous it actually is in daily use. --89.14.147.102 (talk) 15:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Safety

message: In the UK some people definitely do have them, as a kid I remember seeing one in our friends house. What really seems to be lacking here though is the fact that there is more than one type of disposal unit. Our friends unit ground up the food scraps then dropped them into a special bin under the sink, instead of all the waste going down the drain almost none did. I knew the thing must have some kind of separator but always wondered how it worked. - I looked it up in Wikipedia and found no mention of disposals that separate waste and water. ! Another aspect I was wondering about was safety as I remember that you could put all the food waste down it - I think even things like chicken bones. Maybe this is a type that no longer exists now.
Lucien86 (talk) 04:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the western US disposals have been standard in new houses/apartments since the 1970s. But if you have a disposal, that means you don't have a strainer over the drain to stop large pieces from going through. Even if you're careful to put food into the compost bin, a few pieces accidentally go down the drain, and then the sink stops up and you have to run the disposal for a second to clear it. That's life with a disposal. Compost pickup is new here: Seattle started five years ago and many cities still don't have it. All the disposals I've seen are the "Continuous" kind: you turn on the water, turn on the disposal, drop food into it, and it goes out the sewer pipe. I wouldn't put chicken bones into it. Sluggoster (talk) 05:54, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disposal units in the UK, different types 

message: I live in the UK, and in my entire life I have seen only 1 or 2 domestic devices in the UK (much more common in commercial establishments). They are rare in domestic dwellings here. They're generally regarded as a pointless novelty, and the noise they make is problematic in the UK's relatively dense housing. So I cheked the ref for the 6% claim, and sure enough its a journalistic source giving no reference whatsoever, ie very unreliable. I dont believe the 6% claim is true.
FWIW they make no sense to uk householders, who simply put food material in the bin by/under the sink. Whether that binful goes out with mixed waste or is composted varies.
Tabby (talk) 08:35, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in the UK? 

message: I have lived in both New Zealand and Australia, and the waste disposal unit is very widely used in New Zealand. I'm not entirely sure about Australia, but having lived in Melbourne for 3 years, I have not seen any usage of the waste disposal unit in Melbourne. I will try and research further on this.
Hyongsu87 (talk) 07:58, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never seen them here, but then I don't usually go around looking under people's sinks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.198.124.26 (talk) 11:58, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in Australasia? 

message: This page contains little to no info on the damage to sewage systems caused my fat oil and grease, and seems to promote disposals.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.184.116.120 (talk) 02:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Raleigh ban was rescinded within a month, with the City Council admitting they had not checked the scientific evidence. Mauls (talk) 09:43, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: I have made changes to this page, with citations, because the former copy was not factual. These new corrections are backed by research and this page is now factual.
InSinkErator Division  —Preceding unsigned comment added by InSinkErator Division (talk • contribs) 18:57, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to Impacts and advantages page 

message: Nobody owns them here. "American things" like bubble baths, ice cube machines, microwave ovens, phones with very long cords, walk-in closets, have all slowly been adopted, at least by the rich. Garbage disposal units cannot even be found on line. Strange. It may have to do with the fact that all the other things are shown in TV shows and disposal units aren't.  Joepnl (talk) 23:00, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick Google of "voedselvermaler" proves that this is absolute nonsense. Mauls (talk) 10:49, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: They are not legal to use in the Netherlands.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.77.42.56 (talk) 12:10, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  They don't exist in The Netherlands 

message: The unit is called a Garbage Disposer, not a Garbage Disposal.  The first disposer to be marketed was called a Disposall, and like a tissue became a Kleenex and a cotton swab became a Q-Tip no matter who makes them, the ubiquitous brand name became the generic name, so the disposer in colloquial English became the disposal, but that doesn't mean that simply because some or even most people have decided by fiat to mistakenly refer the item by the wrong name that it's the correct thing to do.  If we all decided to call a platypus a dog because it's an easier & more-recognizable name to use for an animal, it's still really a platypus and we're just simply wrong.  Look at this link: GE's history of the disposer --- it explains exactly what I just said, and this entire article needs to be re-titled & re-written to call the item a disposer with a redirect to it when people enter the word "disposal", but you should say "a/k/a disposal" and the explanation for why it's popularly called that should be added as well.PhilOSophocle (talk) 01:33, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: "Garbage disposal" is the most common name I see, so I think the article should stay where it is.  I added "garbage disposer" with a reference to a GE web page that uses that term, and also added mention of the Disposall.  Cute.  -- Beland (talk) 23:53, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

text: At this point it is closer to "aspirin" as even the Insinkerator brand is calling them disposals as there does not appear to be a trademark on the term "disposal."  Note that Haier has a trademark for "DISPOSALL." Saulinpa (talk) 01:10, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

text: The ending "-al" usually makes an adjective, but in the case of "dispose -> disposal" it makes a verbal noun: the act of disposing or the residue that was disposed. "The city has problems with disposal of water" means the city can't get rid of water the way it would like. "Disposall" may have been the cause of applying the word "disposal" to a machine that grinds up food waste, but the word is solidly established now. I was born in the 1960s and the word "garbage disposal" has been the common word my entire life in the western US. Sluggoster (talk) 05:21, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's a DisposER, not a DisposAL 

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