What is the environmental consequence of garbage disposals?

Question

Garbage dispoals use water. Would it better for the envronment to send garbage to landfills?

Answer 1

It would be better to compost organic waste.

The device first became widely popular in upscale kitchens of the 1970s and 1980s, yet remains very rare in European countries, due in part to greater promotion of composting kitchen waste. Concerns over environmental impact weakened its popularity, but kitchen designers and plumbers confirm the renewed appeal of the food-waste-grinding and -liquefying apparatus that lives under the sink. For many years, garbage disposals were illegal in New York City because of a perceived threat of damage to the city's sewer system. The ban was rescinded on September 11, 1997 by local law 1997/071 which amended section 24-518.1, NYC Administrative code

Answer 2

The wastewater will be treated at a sewer plan and released rather than literally piling up.

But as the previous post said. Compost or feed it to the amimals, I'd rather dispose of food wastes in distributed areas outside where it nurtures the soil and wildlife.