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When Mireille Breitwieser heard of her son's arrest from Kleinklaus, who had been able to evade Swiss authorities, she proceeded to destroy many of the works Breitwieser stored at her house in Mulhouse: contemporary reports suggested she cut or carved them up, leaving the remains of the frames in the trash over several weeks and forcing the shredded paintings down her garbage disposal unit, [1 ...
In the United States, 50% of homes had disposal units as of 2009, [12] compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom [13] and 3% in Canada. [14]In Britain, Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire Council started to subsidize the purchase of garbage disposal units in 2005, in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and the carbon footprint of garbage runs. [15]
I was born in the 1960s and the word "garbage disposal" has been the common word my entire life in the western US. Sluggoster 05:21, 9 April 2017 (UTC) The unit is never ever called a "Garbage Disposer". It is alway referred to as a "Garbage Disposal" or "Disposall", much like a copier is called a Xerox machine.
The location of waste treatment and disposal facilities often reduces property values due to noise, dust, pollution, unsightliness, and negative stigma. The informal waste sector consists mostly of waste pickers who scavenge for metals, glass, plastic, textiles, and other materials and then trade them for a profit.
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The name is a play on the word "incinerator" and refers to the fact that the mouth of the disposal unit is located "in" the "sink". The company was purchased by Emerson Electric in 1968. In 2006, In-Sink-Erator removed the hyphens from its name, becoming InSinkErator.
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The Mobro 4000 was a barge owned by MOBRO Marine, Inc. made infamous in 1987 for hauling the same load of trash along the east coast of North America from New York City to Belize and back until a way was found to dispose of the garbage.