Food Waste Disposer

Introduction
Food Waste Disposer is a must have appliance for today’s modern kitchen. It
doesn’t just offer practical, contemporary convenience but also provides an
environmentally responsible answer to the growing problems of food waste.
This is the easy way to deal with food waste disposal. Fitted easily and discreetly
under the sink, a waste disposer effortlessly grinds food waste into tiny particles
that are automatically flushed down a standard kitchen drain into the local
waste treatment system or into sewage water treatment plant or various
purposes like Bio-fertilization, Fish Food, etc.

This the clean, convenient and safe way to dispose of food waste.Food waste
disposers can provide an environmentally responsible alternative to
transporting food waste to landfills. And they can help reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. At capable wastewater treatment plants, food Waste can be recycled
to produce renewable energy. Additionally, capable wastewater treatment
plants can process food waste into fertilizer.
Why Food Waste Disposer?

 When you use a garbage disposer in your home, you're helping

to combat global warming at the same time.
 You reduce greenhouse gases emitted by waste management
truck during transportation. Those trucks carried the waste food
to the landfill.
 Less waste food to landfill means lesser production of methane.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas harmful to the environment.
 Water waste from your kitchen sink is can be transferred to the
waste water treatment plant. From there, it can be recycled into
energy sources and fertilizer.

Recycle Your Food Waste

Food Waste Disposers and

Environment
Food Waste is Ground in Disposer
Waste Flows to Wastewater Treatment Facility
• Biosolids Captured and Turned into
Fertilizer
• Methane Gas Captured and Recycled for
Use at Power Plant / Other Facilities
Fertilizer Created from Biosolids Applied to
Agricultural Land
L Land Produces Food and Cycle Begins Again
Problems associated due to improper management of
solid waste
• The most common problems associated with improper management of
solid waste include diseases, odour nuisance, fire hazards, atmospheric
and water pollution, aesthetic nuisance and economic losses.
• Solid waste pollution caused when the environment is filled with non-
biodegradable and Non- compostable biodegradable waste that is
capable of emitting greenhouse gases, toxic fumes, and particulate
matters as they accumulate in open landfills. These waste are also capable
of leaching organic or chemical compositions to contaminate the ground
where such waste lay in accumulation.
• The group at risk from the unscientific disposal of solid waste includes the
population in areas where there is no proper waste disposal method or
no proper disposal area, especially the pre-school children; waste
workers; and workers in facilities producing toxic and infectious material.

Infections to humans
• Skin irritations and blood infections resulting from direct contact with
waste, and transmitting bacteria from waste to infected wounds.
• Eye irritations and respiratory malfunctions resulting from exposure to
infected dust, especially during the process of disposing garbage.
How It Works?

Food waste disposers are devices

that are easily fitted under the
kitchen sink. They quickly and simply
grind kitchen food waste into
miniscule particles (less than 2mm)
and flush them into the waste water
system, to be treated with the rest of
the sewage. Driven by electric motor,
they are easy and safe to use.

The grinding mechanism has no

knives or blades. Instead, impellers (or lugs) mounted on a spinning plate use
centrifugal force to continuously force food waste particles against a stationary
grind ring. The grind ring breaks down the food waste into very fine particles -
virtually liquefying them. Once they are ground the running water flushes the
particles through the grind ring into the wastewater pipe

Low energy and water use

Food waste disposers are typically rated between 0.4–0.5 kW. Requiring a very
short run time, their energy and water use is minimal. DEFRA’s Market
Transformation Programme (MTP) estimated that on average food waste
disposers run for just over 15 seconds per use and use just 2-3 kWh of electricity
a year. At current average electricity prices this represents a cost of
approximately 46 pence p.a. A disposer’s average water consumption is only
0.07% of a household’s annual use, or the equivalent of about one extra toilet
flush a day