print email comment close Garbage Disposers: Trimming Your Waste URL: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/appliances/kitchen-appliances/garbage-disposers/garbage-disposers-204/overview/index.htm?resultPageIndex=1&resultIndex=2&searchTerm=garbage%20disposers Description: Consumer advice about choosing a garbage disposer, covering factors such as balancing convenience with safety and considering the type of food waste typical of your household. Also discusses a potential environmental downside of disposers and describes typical features of disposers (noting that "just four companies make all garbage disposers under different brand names, with In-Sink-Erator accounting for nearly 80 percent of disposers sold"). Additional material only available to subscribers. From Consumer Reports. Publisher: Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. LII Database Information: Record 25741 created by Jennifer English on 03/17/2008 Last modification on 11/04/2008 Published: 11/20/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25741