“Garbage disposers address the often disparate demands of convenience and conservation by grinding up kitchen scraps, especially non-compostable leftovers like meat and poultry or fat, and sending them down the drain to a sewage-treatment plant or septic system for handling, rather than to the landfill for slow decomposition,” says Consumer Reports. “In addition to eliminating the mess, a garbage disposer shifts food waste from your trash can to a wastewater treatment system, discouraging bugs and other pests.”
Here is the Consumer Reports’ selection of recommended garbage disposers. The maximum overall score is 100, and “Best Buy” models offer more value.
Continuous-feed garbage disposers
Batch-feed garbage disposers
Consumer Reports is an American magazine published monthly since 1936. It features reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory and survey research centre. The magazine accepts no advertising, pays for all the products it tests, and, as a not-for-profit organisation, has no shareholders. It also publishes cleaning and general buying guides. (Wikipedia.)
Source: Consumer Reports
Last checked on: 7 October 2016
Image: