You live in a condo Most of your garbage is fruit vegetable peels Is it more eco friendly to use a garborator to dispose of these or is using the garbage a better choice?

Answer 1

[1] A criticism of garborators, aka garbage disposals and insinkerators, is their effect on water quality. For the ground-up kitchen scraps go down the drain with the water. [2] A criticism of putting kitchen scraps in the garbage is their cumulative effect on landfills. Kitchen scraps, and yard waste such as fallen leaves and grass clippings, aren't part of the necessary trash stream that's filling landfills at such fast rates these days. In landfills, they break down anaerobically, ie, without oxygen. And that encourages build-up of greenhouse gases such as methane. [3] One alternative's a composting garborator. That directs ground-up kitchen scraps into a special tank to which the sprinkler system's hooked. So ground-up kitchen scraps + water = compost tea = organic matter in soil = healthy grass, plants and soil. [4] Another alternative's a counter or outside composter. They come in attractive, lidded models. [But if composting's going as it should, there'll be no smells. Smell = anaerobic. No smell other than the freshness of outside = aerobic = presence of oxygen.]