[MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter
I am working on the new kitchen. We live out in the fringe and have a septic system, so no running a food disposer into it. I compost most of the veggie waste and such, but was thinking it would be convenient to cobble up some sort of sink disposer into some separate composting system -- just run a pipe directly from a separate disposer sink into this device. Since it might include meat scraps and such in the stream, it would be a somewhat different system from just putting the veggie scraps into the compost bin. Googling does not suggest any sort of solution (aside from doing what I do now), but it seems like there would be some sort of system that would take all that stuff and turn it into compost without anaerobic nastiness. The basic idea would be to make it fairly easy to dump stuff in the disposer and it goes into something that I could deal with at my leisure, and not be filling up a can by the sink with veggie stuff, and dumping other scraps in the garbage, and cleaning the sink strainer of nasty goop every now and then. Anyone know of any such system or would I have to figure it out? Or will it not work? --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter
After the county inspector had finished his business at the house that I designed and built 32 years ago, I installed a disposer dumping into the septic tank with the rest of the stuff, but we still put the much greater percentage of compostable stuff in a compost bucket; most meats, etc., into haul-away garbage. 'Still do it that way on the city system. Wilton - Original Message - From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 9:38 AM Subject: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter I am working on the new kitchen. We live out in the fringe and have a septic system, so no running a food disposer into it. I compost most of the veggie waste and such, but was thinking it would be convenient to cobble up some sort of sink disposer into some separate composting system -- just run a pipe directly from a separate disposer sink into this device. Since it might include meat scraps and such in the stream, it would be a somewhat different system from just putting the veggie scraps into the compost bin. Googling does not suggest any sort of solution (aside from doing what I do now), but it seems like there would be some sort of system that would take all that stuff and turn it into compost without anaerobic nastiness. The basic idea would be to make it fairly easy to dump stuff in the disposer and it goes into something that I could deal with at my leisure, and not be filling up a can by the sink with veggie stuff, and dumping other scraps in the garbage, and cleaning the sink strainer of nasty goop every now and then. Anyone know of any such system or would I have to figure it out? Or will it not work? --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter
The house I grew up in had a grey water discharge (i.e. from the sinks, clothes washer, shower, and tub) that simply went down and out over a forested hill side, and a septic tank for the toilet. The grey water discharge must have been well designed, as it never blocked up in the Wisconsin winter time when the ground was frozen. I'll bet if your septic tank and field are large enough, they could handle the additional discharge of the sink disposer, if you routed all the rest of the grey water to a different drainage field. I've seen kitchen sinks with a smaller separate basin for the disposer, so normal water flow doesn't reach it without an effort. Your dishwasher discharge has some food scraps in it - where does that go now? -Max -Original Message- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of WILTON Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:06 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter After the county inspector had finished his business at the house that I designed and built 32 years ago, I installed a disposer dumping into the septic tank with the rest of the stuff, but we still put the much greater percentage of compostable stuff in a compost bucket; most meats, etc., into haul-away garbage. 'Still do it that way on the city system. Wilton - Original Message - From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 9:38 AM Subject: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter I am working on the new kitchen. We live out in the fringe and have a septic system, so no running a food disposer into it. I compost most of the veggie waste and such, but was thinking it would be convenient to cobble up some sort of sink disposer into some separate composting system -- just run a pipe directly from a separate disposer sink into this device. Since it might include meat scraps and such in the stream, it would be a somewhat different system from just putting the veggie scraps into the compost bin. Googling does not suggest any sort of solution (aside from doing what I do now), but it seems like there would be some sort of system that would take all that stuff and turn it into compost without anaerobic nastiness. The basic idea would be to make it fairly easy to dump stuff in the disposer and it goes into something that I could deal with at my leisure, and not be filling up a can by the sink with veggie stuff, and dumping other scraps in the garbage, and cleaning the sink strainer of nasty goop every now and then. Anyone know of any such system or would I have to figure it out? Or will it not work? --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter
Grey water discharge onto the surface, into ditches, streams, etc., is illegal in NC; 'don't know 'bout SC. Disposer discharge into septic at my house was never a problem; 'asked the people who bought house from me about it several months ago; 'still not a problem. As with a disposer or any equipment anywhere, one needs to use some common sense using it. Wilton - Original Message - From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter The house I grew up in had a grey water discharge (i.e. from the sinks, clothes washer, shower, and tub) that simply went down and out over a forested hill side, and a septic tank for the toilet. The grey water discharge must have been well designed, as it never blocked up in the Wisconsin winter time when the ground was frozen. I'll bet if your septic tank and field are large enough, they could handle the additional discharge of the sink disposer, if you routed all the rest of the grey water to a different drainage field. I've seen kitchen sinks with a smaller separate basin for the disposer, so normal water flow doesn't reach it without an effort. Your dishwasher discharge has some food scraps in it - where does that go now? -Max -Original Message- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of WILTON Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:06 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter After the county inspector had finished his business at the house that I designed and built 32 years ago, I installed a disposer dumping into the septic tank with the rest of the stuff, but we still put the much greater percentage of compostable stuff in a compost bucket; most meats, etc., into haul-away garbage. 'Still do it that way on the city system. Wilton - Original Message - From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 9:38 AM Subject: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter I am working on the new kitchen. We live out in the fringe and have a septic system, so no running a food disposer into it. I compost most of the veggie waste and such, but was thinking it would be convenient to cobble up some sort of sink disposer into some separate composting system -- just run a pipe directly from a separate disposer sink into this device. Since it might include meat scraps and such in the stream, it would be a somewhat different system from just putting the veggie scraps into the compost bin. Googling does not suggest any sort of solution (aside from doing what I do now), but it seems like there would be some sort of system that would take all that stuff and turn it into compost without anaerobic nastiness. The basic idea would be to make it fairly easy to dump stuff in the disposer and it goes into something that I could deal with at my leisure, and not be filling up a can by the sink with veggie stuff, and dumping other scraps in the garbage, and cleaning the sink strainer of nasty goop every now and then. Anyone know of any such system or would I have to figure it out? Or will it not work? --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:22 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote: Disposer discharge into septic at my house was never a problem; 'asked the people who bought house from me about it several months ago; 'still not a problem. As with a disposer or any equipment anywhere, one needs to use some common sense using it. My thoughts, too. Doesn't it make a big difference how much food you are in the habit of putting down the disposer? I have seen people shovel entire platefuls of unwanted leftovers in there, but that has always seemed to me to be a poor practice whether you are on a septic system or a public sewer. Alex ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter
Yes, it makes a difference. Wilton - Original Message - From: Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Way OT -- Food disposer/composter On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:22 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote: Disposer discharge into septic at my house was never a problem; 'asked the people who bought house from me about it several months ago; 'still not a problem. As with a disposer or any equipment anywhere, one needs to use some common sense using it. My thoughts, too. Doesn't it make a big difference how much food you are in the habit of putting down the disposer? I have seen people shovel entire platefuls of unwanted leftovers in there, but that has always seemed to me to be a poor practice whether you are on a septic system or a public sewer. Alex ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
