I have been reading up on the regulations on Garbage Disposals or Food Waste Disposers (FWDs) in other areas, since the City of Raleigh?s move
to ban the citizens from having FWDs installed.  Now if you try to
break this new ordinance you could face a $25,000 fine, per day if you
fail to comply with the law.

My eyebrows were raised when I got a flyer last week at my apartment
complex in west Raleigh explaining all the details of the City?s
plan.  The Mayor and City Council seem to live in a utopia where
everyone is going to start making compost.  Now, mind you, I grew
up in rural western North Carolina, and some folks? idea of ridding
themselves of food scraps was to get some pigs and feed the pigs the
food scraps and in a day or two you?ll have some rich compost in the
pig pen.

My first thoughts when I saw a FWD in action, in a new home in WNC, and
the owner was proud of this new machine. I thought wow!  This
machine is amazing, it chops up waste, would eliminate the odor of
barnyard animals and their by-products, and would make the world a
cleaner place.  Now the Raleigh city government takes a different
view.

New York City
once had a ban on FWDs, until the mid 1990s, then Mayor Giuliani had
some researchers do a study on the situation.  They found that FWDs
actually make the city cleaner and more sanitary.

Now my question to you, so we have surrendered our right to purchase and use new more efficient FWDs,
what other rights do you think the City of Raleigh will take away
next?  We will just have to wait and see, like having a
neighborhood compost heap.