InSinkErator asks homeowners about food waste disposer usage
Survey finds consumers still believe in old wives’ tales about disposers.
A recent survey from InSinkErator asked 750 U.S. homeowners how they use their food waste disposers. Many respondents fell into a category only described as “old wives tales” believers. Why? Apparently certain beliefs about items that shouldn’t go down a disposer — potato peels, banana peels, chicken bones, garlic peels, celery, etc., have been handed down from mothers and spouses for decades. “With modern disposers, they are all wrong,” according to Vince Costa, director of customer service at InSinkErator.
Garbage disposers have been around for more than 75 years, and approximately half of all the homes in the U.S. have one. But with so much usage over such a long time, why does one of the most-asked questions coming in to the InSinkErator call center continue to be, “What can’t I put down it?” InSinkErator attributes it to old wives’ tales.