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Pasta in the Disposer?!?!?!?!?

What a shame! Pasta NEVER would be left! My mom says it always, "Mangiala tutta!" You have to calculate the right amount of pasta per person... more or less 0.070 Kg each one, that means that 1 kilo would be enough for 8-10 people!

I eat at least one portion of pasta every day! Sometimes twice a day, what awful wasting of meal there would be if we didn't calculate the righ amount?!?

Pasta can be bounced in the wok, if you have some pasta left... Put it in the wok with medium calor, then add a bit of butter, some scrubbed cheese (and some scrubbed bread too if you like) and make them bouncing...MMMHM!!! What a wonderful way to prepare your dinner if you have some pasta left from lunch and nothing else... better with garlic and tomatoes! :)))

About European rules, I asked my father how does it works: of course no government agent will never come to your house to check what do you waste in your kitchen sinks, but is FORBIDDEN to waste "any solid material that is not bio-degradable" throughout the waste line, so I suppose that all you take away from your dishes can surely be wasted through the disposer, such as bones or fruit skin, but absolutely NO the paper cases like pizza boxes of like take-away of chinese restaurant!!! LOL

Rich, here it works exactly like over there! What a strange thing, we're so far but something works the same!
Here (better, in condos'town), people have to sort trash: PLASTIC-PAPER-GLASS-HUMUS-UNSORTABLE!!! Each category has a different color bags and the garbage men collect them home-to-home.
As we live out of town, on the hill (detached house), for us it works a bit differently: we have the same to sort our trash in the same way, but for PLASTIC-PAPER-GLASS-UNSORTABLES we put them separately in the local waste collectors(no home-to-home collectors for us), and for HUMUS, we compost every kitchen waste (that would have been throuwn away) in the back yard composter.
 
Sort the trash!!!!

I read all the posts before have written mine, sorry.

That's how it works, in Europe everyone MUST sort the trash...IT'S COMPULSORY! I don't know if it works like so in US too, but I'd like to know! :-)) Like you would do with laundry...

By the way of trash, I remeber whan I was young what strange system to avoid rats&cats over the trash, in south of Italy, in my granma's condo,they used to hang down the balcony the trash bags and the garbage man had only to pick up it away, now they don't do like so again, but the cannot put the rubbish in the conainers until a certain hour established by the local management, anyway I think hanging trashbags would be the best solution absolutely, then what fun!!!
 
I don't have curbside trash pickup-so I take mine to one of the county wide "transfer stations"These are "drive-up" facilities-they have several dumpsters-one for appliances and other metal goods,another for kraft type cardboard boxes,another for cans and bottles-then each has a Marathon compactor and container for general trash-and folks love to watch their trash get smushed-esp the kids.These places are clean and don't cost anything to use-your local taxes here already paid for the faclilty.And those "Braune Tonnen" dumpsters--how often are they emptied--If they sit for more than 3 days-could also be a good breeding place for flies.3 days is considered the fly egg laying to larvae stage.(maggots)The dumpsters at the place I go to are emptied every couple of days.Theres very few flies and rats there-one time a cat was in the compactor container!! surprized-and so was the operator-He mentioned the cat was rescued from it and lived around the place for several years after.They were sad when he died.-It wasn't from being in the compactor--Guess that cat--how many "lives" did he lose?He was so lucky he didn't get smushed in the compactor.The dump operator said it took awhile to clean him up.
 
A Garage

is something I lack, so if I put food garbage in the trash I might just as well put a sign out that says RACOON AND POSSUM BUFFET HERE.
Cleaning that up is NOT fun.
I've never heard that pasta would clog drains, but I have heard from several people that rice should not go down the drain because its very sticky and can clog drains.

What I will say is if people came in and wanted to take away appliances from my kitchen I'd let them have the dishwasher, but would fight for the disposal. So much more sanitary!
 
ah, but the southern Italians

learned the hard way how important it is to prevent dangerous bugs from getting a chance - whether typhous, malaria - you name it, they fought it. And won.
Here in Germany the bio-müll is emptied once a week. Well, that is here in Munich. Of course it stinks, of course we have magets and all the other problems.
But the greens are inflexible. People have to be educated until they understand the "right way".
I grew up with a mum who believes firmly in organic gardening - but our three year compost piles sure didn't stink or encourage rats...and she never ever tries to make anybody see the world "her" way. Since living here, I tend to throw more things away then to recycle just cause the Greens make me so angry with their raised-finger attitude.
 
Don't like handling the basket.

I don't like to clean the little strainer-basket thingy at the bottom of the kitchen sink in the drain.

Got a disposal. I throw EVERYTHING in the sink. Then I load the DW. With a paper-towel I scoop out all the crud, toss it into the garbage can.

Whatever incidentals fall into the unfiltered, un-screened, un-strained drain-hole get ground up and flushed.

I also tend to discard soups and such in the kitchen sink & disposer rather than the commode. At least it will be partially ground-up. I had a problem with larger food items getting stuck on tree roots in the sewer line.

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In my town, we used to have to presort recyclables. We had three different bins, plus the regular trash and the green yard trimmings. Five in all. Then the waste management facility got "smart" and instead of the five bins, we have only three now: regular (gray), yard trimmings/food wastes (green), and metal/paper/plastic (blue). They hired a bunch of people who do nothing but sort through the blue stuff in a big open warehouse down by the bay. Of course our rates went up to pay for all of this, but I think it is worth it. Now I can stuff that nasty styrofoam packing in the blue container and nobody says a thing about it. I don't know what they do with it, but it doesn't come back.

The reason for all this is that the various waste management facilities in the state have been given an ultimatum to halve the amount of waste that goes into landfills by half by a certain date. The more they recycle, the better.

Oh, and we have militant greens here - just about 20 miles north of here lies the hotbed of radical thought in the USA, Berkeley. I used to live there, and I still like the town, but I'm kind of glad I don't have to put up with some of the associated nonsense on a daily basis.
 
Um, a properly managed compost pile should have no foul odors.

It should also not attract raccoons and possums. I compost shredded yard clippings (fairly large volume) and kitchen food waste in Biostack compost bins, which have lids. The lids are not locking, and we have plenty of raccoons and possums here, but I've never had one disrupt the compost bins.

The fish ponds and fruit trees are another story ;-).
 
NEVER place any meats, cheeses, eggs (except the shells), or dairy producte in a composter. NEVER! Breads and pastas aren't good either. Organic wastes only. And remember to layer it. A layer of black (carbon based) material, and a layer of green material.
 
I have a 1 HP GE bought in 1994 to replace an ISE Badger3 original to the 1984 house. The GE is still going strong as compared to the ISe. I put everything down there except for paper related stuff and fat removed from chicken or beef. I've also learned for things that pose a challenge and potential blockage, I simply put small amounts down and works fine.
 
a three year compost

is the best - if you have the space. Ours didn't stink, but then mum was very strict about what did not belong in there...and what did.
I have seen catalog pictures of garbage disposers which were supposed to work well with septic tanks.
Something about the way the waste was ground in different steps - the bacteria were supposed to get organic waste with enough surface area to be able to effectively break it down.
I don't know - I wouldn't risk it.
 
Keven

I absolutely agree with you, that some of us Germans tend to overdo that recycling thing.
If I would seperate and recycle everything we have a bin for, I would already have the rats in my flat. LOL

Fact is that getting rid of unsorted rubbish is very expensive here and recycling pick up seems like nearly for free.
So I only seperate paper and plastic and other stuff only whenever I have larger quantities. Exept for the Biomass bin, which I refuse to use.
As to disposers, would be nice to have one... but on the other hand I appreciate the taste and purity of Munich tap water, which IMHO is far better than the stuff called drinkingwater sold in plastic gallons in Publix stores.
Thanks to those strikt enviromental regulations we have to face here, waterfilters are even less widely known than smokedetectors ;-)
 
15 coming for a cookout this afternoon

one offering on the menu is Margarita Fruit Salad. Here's some of what will go down my disposal today...

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Sweet Jesus, Take Me Now!

Yes, yes, yes! That is how the disposal was intended to be used! A machine to make life easier! Lord knows, you could fill a dump truck with what I have stuffed down a disposal. The only real reject I have encountered are artichoke leaves.
Wowee! You made my day.
Kelly
 
it all went too

Even I was kinda surprised, the MOL vintage 1/2 hp Waste King ate it all and didn't even object!
I was kinda expecting to pop the reset button with all that stuff!
 
Well, I guess I break all the compost "rules". I've put meat, fish, chicken, turkery, dairy products, breads, you name it, in my compost bins with no problems. Some people even advocate composting human soil waste, but I won't go that far (although urine is fine). In a properly set up compost pile, any pathogens are killed by the compost process - both heat and compost bacteria/fungi.

I don't add rose prunings (the thorns don't break down readily) and certain weeds that have gone to seed.

It's also not necessary to wait three years for a compost pile to mature. One year is more than enough, and some people are able to shorten that to a few months.
 
Stefan,

Munich tap water - remember the ads the city had up for a while claiming it was better than bottled stuff - the courts made them take them down 'cause of unlawful competition?
We do have excellent water and I certainly do appreciate the environmental protection laws. Did you know that our water is so pure it does not even have to be chlorinated?
I just get really pissed off at the raised finger "ich weiß was für dich gut ist" mentality of our local greens.
Since I'm German (long, long story) I always vote in the city elections for the Rosa Liste or SPD or anybody *but* the Greens.
Was Wasserfilter angeht...I am not so sure. I'm the only person I know who doesn't use a Brita filter...
Now if we could just get the city to bring back Sperrmülltage...when I lived in Icking I loved to walk around the streets looking at all the beautiful old machinery... here in Munich some nasty old Fraunzimmer turns you into the Öko-cops if you even dare put your still working appliances by the trash with a "zu Verschenken" next to it.
 

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