• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Note the bottle of Fairy, the UK equivalent of Dawn. It’s not a waste disposal, it’s a fucking useless sponge holder, in my experience

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          Waste disposal is a weirdly American thing. That’s why when you go on holiday and chuck your food down the drain like a special-needs kid discovering toilet roll for the first time, you have to phone people like me to fix it for you

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            9 months ago

            Where I live in the UK, food is placed in a compostable bag which are taken away weekly. They turn it into energy. Way better than blending it and putting down the drain.

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              Fun fact, burning biomass is not very good as far as emissions go. In the US waste water treatment byproducts are typically methane and fertilizer, both bottled and sold. a much better place for all that carbon, imo.

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                It’s not burned. It goes to an Anaerobic Digester which produces electricity, gas and fertiliser.

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                  9 months ago

                  Oh, so the same exact thing, except in your case it goes on a car instead of through the pipes.

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            9 months ago

            weird, it’s common where I live (Poland, Europe)

            edit: common may be an exaggeration, I could probably list like 5 or 6 homes of my family members and close friends which do have it

            edit2: oh we also have Fairy so this may as well be in Poland lol

            edit3: the label in the photo is in English so it’s unlikely

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      9 months ago

      They’re not common in the UK.

      The little sink is just that really. I use it for pouring liquids down the drain when washing dishes and the main sink is full of water.

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      9 months ago

      Is that common in newer homes? Is it a regional thing? I’ve only ever seen garbage disposals installed in the regular sink drain, I’ve never seen one that had it’s own dedicated little sink like that!

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        American here: never seen it another way. Always two sinks in one, and the one of them has a garbage disposal on it.