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Waste Disposal Unit

Member Since 2010 Current Ranking 103

  • Bio:

    The waste disposal unit was invented in 1927 by John W. Hammes. He was an architect working in Racine, Wisconsin. After eleven years of development, his InSinkErator company put his disposer on the market in 1938.

    In many cities in the United States in the 1930s and the 1940s the municipal sewage system had regulations prohibiting running food waste into the system. InSinkErator spent considerable effort, and was highly successful in convincing many localities to rescind these prohibitions. Many localities mandated the use of disposers. For many years, waste disposals were illegal in New York City because of a perceived threat of damage to the city's sewer system. After a 21-month study with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, the ban was rescinded in 1997 by local law 1997/071 which amended section 24-518.1, NYC Administrative code. In 2008, the city of Raleigh, North Carolina attempted a ban on the replacement and installation of waste disposals which also extended to outlying towns sharing the city's municipal sewage system, but rescinded the ban one month later.

    Waste disposal units became popular in American kitchens in the 1970s and 1980s. In the U.S. 47% of homes had disposal units as of 2007, but in the United Kingdom this was only 6%.

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