Eco-friendly ways to dispose garbage with food waste disposers

Food waste is something you can’t avoid every time you cook. How to deal with it is an issue, especially in the summer when odors and flies can be problematic. This is where food waste disposers come in, dealing with your food garbage conveniently from home. Food waste disposal will become much easier and smoother if you make good use of them.

Firstly, food waste disposers allow users to reduce food waste generated at home. A survey showed that kitchen waste can be reduced by 70% by drying food waste. Secondly, it lessens the number of times you have to take out the garbage. Most food waste disposals are used indoors and have tightly closed lids so that unpleasant odors don’t remain in the kitchen.

However, the disadvantages of food waste disposers include their high price. They also have running costs like electrical bills. Many may not want to spend so much on a food waste disposer, but some local governments provide subsidies to encourage purchasing these devices. Be sure to inquire in advance if you are thinking of buying one.

Food waste contains a lot of water, so it takes a lot of energy as well as cost to burn it. Therefore, drying waste is extremely eco-friendly. Food waste disposers are not only methods of disposing waste easily, but also ways of protecting the environment. Here are six recommended food waste disposers that are easy to use.

NAXLU

NAXLU is fully automatic, so there is no need to press a power button or wait. When food waste is added, microorganisms decompose the waste into the air. In addition, it only requires a small amount of electricity, so the electricity bill is less than half of the dry-type food waste disposer. No smell emerges in the process, and it’s also very quiet.

MS-N53XD Panasonic

Panasonic’s “MS-N53XD” can be placed in the kitchen like a trash can. It uses warm air of about 130°C to dry and sterilize waste, greatly reducing its capacity to about 1/7. It also cuts odors by approximately 99% and has a “soft drying mode” that allows you to make fertilizers, so it is especially recommended for those who are into gardening. Its large capacity of 6L suits large families as well.

Pariparikyu PPC-11 Shima Sangyo

A winner of the Good Design Award 2020, SHIMA SANGYO Co. Ltd.’s Pariparikyu PPC-11 is a dry processor designed for a household of 1 to 5 people. Kitchen waste after drying is reduced to about 1/5 and can be used as organic fertilizers. There are two modes, normal and soft, and the drying process completes in a minimum of 4 hours to a maximum of 10 hours. It’s also compact (about the size of an A4 paper) so you don’t have to worry about where to put it.

Paripari Cube Light Alpha PCL-33 Shima Sangyo

Paripari Cube Light Alpha PCL-33 is a smaller version of “Paripari Q PPC-11” and is intended for 1 to 3 people. It has a cylindrical type design and looks like a small trash can. The maximum capacity of garbage is about 2L. The drying takes about 9 hours in normal mode and about 5 hours in power-saving mode.

Food Cycler FC-30 MODENITY

All you have to do with “Food Cycler” from Canadian brand MODENITY is put drained food waste in a basket and press a button. The waste is dried after about 3 hours. It holds a maximum capacity of 2L. In addition, the processing procedure is fast, so electricity costs are low.

NAGUALEP

NAGUALEP is a food waste disposer developed by Nagualep, a venture company in Shenzhen, China, with the aim of contributing to environmental protection. Their high-temperature drying technology dries food waste at a maximum temperature of 120°C through drying, deodorizing, and pulverizing. A maximum of about 2L of food waste can be processed at a time.