Waste Disposal

[doBpop]

Does anyone have any experience with using a commercial food disposal (2+HP or betterwith dual reverse cutters/grinders) for waste disposal?

Woods aren't handy and I surely don't like the thoughts of getting busted hauling waste stuff around! ;)

I don't really have any experience with them but I know they grind bones and fruit pits, etc so I'm thinking stalks and stems wouldn't/shouldn't be a problem for them.

Thanks in advance for the help! :)
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PS If this thread is in the wrong place feel free to move it.

 

[jagle]

how much waste we talking, and how much room you got cos you could compost it maybe on site if you had the room?

 

[doBpop]

how much waste we talking, and how much room you got cos you could compost it maybe on site if you had the room?

Thanks jagle!
All the waste - about 200 plants worth just getting starting at the moment.

Rental house and everything is wide open with not even a bush LOL!
Neighbors all the way around. Nowhere to hide - yikes!

Thanks.


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[jagle]

Thanks jagle!
All the waste - about 200 plants worth just getting starting at the moment.

Rental house and everything is wide open with not even a bush LOL!
Neighbors all the way around. Nowhere to hide - yikes!

Thanks.


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wow jesus 200 plants worth, and with your awful location theres fuck all you can do so but chop it all up and move to a dump(landfill)

em would you have an open fireplace in the house by anychance?

 

[BayAreasFinest]

i dry all my stocks and shit til they are super dried out. then use them in my outdoor fire pit in combination with real wood. i have a ton of fires in my backyard each week so the stocks disappear pretty quickly. i had 2 rooms 75 plants in each. so i had about 150 plants worth of stocks/stems and usually would get rid of the waste before the next harvest.

 

[doBpop]

Hmmmmmmmm .....

No fireplace - no open burning allowed.

That's why I was entertaining the disposal I guess LOL!

Anyone know about them or have any experience?

Thanks everyone for the help!
Always appreciated.​

 

[420Gator]

break it all up, mix it in with yard clippings and put it in the trash can for shit like that and dont put it on the curb till right before the truck picks it up

 

[doBpop]

No clippings. (winter)

No pickup service or can either anyway LOL!

Hmmmmmmmm .....
Then there's all the root balls.

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[Bobby Smith]

Ironic timing; I was just gonna start a thread and ask if anyone on here used a garbage disposal (like this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GGTI5G...e=asn&creative=395093&creativeASIN=B000GGTI5G ) to handle their leaves and stems.

Like you, surrounded by neighbors and have zero desire to put it into the trash (or keep it on my property in any kind of a compost pile).

I wanna get rid of it (and get it the fuck off my property), and this garbage disposal seems like the ticket.........anyone tried something similar and had success with it? Would need to get rid of 4-6 pounds worth of trim and stalks (90 plants).

 

[doBpop]

Hey Bobby!

You got the right idea also LOL!

The one you pointed out is a lightweight though to what I was thinking.

Needs to be 2hp or over.
Also has to have dual reverse cutters/grinders.
They spin in opposite directions.
That's what should wreck the fibers to get rid of them.
I've found like 2-3HP $2k-3k units on craigslist for like $50-100 bucks!

But there again I wondered about a regular home disposal also.
It should grind everything and you would wind up with a ball of fiber that it can't grind which you could take out by hand, etc.

Also, you got to make sure you don't have a septic tank/system.
Seems it would fuck it up maybe. (to me anyway)

Anyone with experience in this area?

Hmmmmmmmm .....

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[jagle]

food processor would that do the trick?

 

[Jalisco Kid]

Get a wood chipper. JK

 

[HeadGrow]

I've never tried it but i think the stalks of the plants are too fibrous for a disposal. Bones and pits break up easily when they are chopped, stalks just kinda fray. That's why hemp makes such good rope. If it were me i wouldn't try it. I'd be more worried about having to explain to a plumber or whoever why there is a bunch of weed stuck in my disposal. Surely you have a friend that has an acre or so in the hills? If you don't have some convenient place to dump it, garbage bag it and bring it to the nearest transfer station or dump. That way it wont get traced back to you. If it's sitting in front of ur house in ur garbage can it's kinda hard to say it wasn't yours.

Also what would you do with the contents of the disposal or the food processor? you'd have to throw that away anyways.

 

[gdbud]

I have heard of fibrus materail clogging up a disposal.
Why not do the green thing and buy a inclosed composting bin or a worm composting bin. This spring put in a small garden outside even if you let the garden go to weeds or die that would give you the excuse for the compost bin.
Also compost bns in the NW do not look out of place it just shows that you are at least tring your part to be green.

 

[Cort]

With that many plants discrete disposal will be tricky. If you have the space to let them dry then crumble up or cut up into small pieces it would be easier to transport away from your spot.

Putting stems down the drain sounds like a bad idea, especially if you are on septic.

You could always wait till dark and dig a nice sized hole in the back yard. Get them under at least a foot of soil and your home free. Or even dig part of it in the day time under the guise of a flower garden, and finish in the night. Just sprinkle some seeds as you fill it in.

 

[motherlode]

no matter how strong your disposal is your still talking about a shit ton of plant matter

Id think no matter what your gonna end up clogging your pipes - so unless your a plumber thats not the route Id choose

hello - roto rooter - yes I have 200 marijuana plants worth of waste backing up into my tub can you come out and snake my drain - thanks

 

[foaf]

you are asking for a plumbing issue using a disposall for that, disposalls arent that great at chopping stringy things, like celery and pot stems and the output is usually a 1.5 inch pipe at the biggest.

If forced to put it into the sewer system, I would grind it up some other way and flush it. You can get electric chipper shredders. Toilets are start to finish larger diameter pipes than the sink.