Tips for reducing and reprocessing food waste in Thailand

[PeteC]

Has anyone here seen in kitchen garbage disposal units? This is a motorized grinder which is part of your kitchen sink drain and handles all wet waste except hard bones, fruit pits, some types of fruit peels etc.

You need to have a good sewage system to handle the discharge, but they have been common in the west in both single family and high rises for decades.

I would think (hope) at least Bangkok now has an adequate sewage system and going forward I wouldn't be surprised to see garbage disposals a common installation in urban new build condos. Or am I dreaming?

[Nereus]

Has anyone here seen in kitchen garbage disposal units? This is a motorized grinder which is part of your kitchen sink drain and handles all wet waste except hard bones, fruit pits, some types of fruit peels etc.
You need to have a good sewage system to handle the discharge, but they have been common in the west in both single family and high rises for decades.
I would think (hope) at least Bangkok now has an adequate sewage system and going forward I wouldn't be surprised to see garbage disposals a common installation in urban new build condos. Or am I dreaming?

I have one in my Condo, it is an Electrolux D500 built in under the kitchen sink. I rarely use it as intended as I live alone and most of the food waste is just chicken bones. There is no sewage system here, just several septic systems.
A properly functioning septic system will handle ground up food waste without any problrms, in fact, chicken bones will help it!

But as Buksida has posted, food waste is not the problem. I think that at the current level of pollution awareness in Thailand in general, a garbage unit would likely be fed all sorts of trash other than organic food waste!

[HHTel]

Food waste isn't much of a problem in our household. We have two four legged food waste disposal units!!

[PeteC]

Enough to say briefly to keep the thread on track as this issue doesn't warrant its own thread (changed my mind )......food waste in landfills can be a huge health problem. Most specifically rats > Leptospirosis and Hantavirus. The first from contaminated water and the second by breathing in the aerosolized virus. The first 7-12 million new cases per year, the second much less but about a 40% fatality rate.

As usual the young, aged and those with compromised immune systems are the most vulnerable.

Plenty to read on both if interested.

[laphanphon]

I'm surprised, since quite a bit if farming (pigs), that the 'slop' / leftover, unused food, both from restaurants and markets, aren't saved and given / sold to the pig farmers.

When in US Army, on base, all mess scrap, unused, spoiled food, went into the 'slop' bin, then to the 'slop' truck and carted of the the local pig farms. Most larger local restaurants and markets doing the same.

If municipalities cared enough, a system could easily be set up at Tessabons or whatever in cities, towns, villages for collection, daily disbursement. Or am I being too practical.

All things are possible, simple actually, if people cared enough, to have almost a zero impact on the environment. From not producing the container trash to begin with, to recycling and or ridding what is necessary

Though seem all aspect of all disposal is poorly, grossly mismanaged.