Never Run These Items Through Your Garbage Disposal!

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Never Run These Items Through Your Garbage
Disposal!
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If youre anything like we were growing up,
rather than emptying your plates in the trash,
you would just dump all your leftover straight
down the drain. Thinking Thats what a garbage
disposal is for, right?Wrong. You may be
surprised just how many every day food items are
not meant to go through a garbage disposal. Check
out this list of 10 things you should never be
throwing down the drain.
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• Coffee Grounds
• Since coffee grounds are about as fine as sand
  and other sediment, they can build up over time
  and form tough-to-manage clogs in your pipes.
• Bones Small or Large
• Like other hard, semi-porous materials, bones can
  damage your blades in short order.

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• Rice, Pasta and Other Starches
• This stuff expands dramatically when soaked and
  is a major cause of organic clogs.
• Seeds Fruit Pits
• Fruit pits and even seeds can damage the blades
  and motor on your garbage disposal. Avoid
  throwing them down at all costs.

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Grease and Animal Fat Once it passes through the
disposal, this stuff can congeal in your pipes.
This often has devastating effects for your
plumbing system. Heavy Fruit
Vegetable Peels Corn husks, squash skins and
other inedible vegetable coverings are worthy
adversaries for your disposal blades.
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• Stringy Fruits and Vegetables
• Its difficult for garbage disposal blades to cut
  through these items. It can be extremely
  difficult to disentangle them.
• Non-Organic Trash
• It might seem obvious, but plastic and metal can
  seriously damage your garbage disposal blades.
  Even smaller items like paper and cigarette butts
  can wreak havoc.

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• Eggshells
• The shells themselves arent problematic, but
  eggshells have a thin membrane that cant be
  broken down in a garbage disposal. This can cause
  long-problems.
• Your Hands
• This one may seem like a no-brainer, but you
  should NEVER put your hands in the garbage
  disposal.

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No matter how careful we are, our garbage
disposals will not last forever. If father time
has caught up with yours, dont hesitate to give
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