I’ve heard multiple times that it’s not okay to allow any food to go down the drain even with a garbage disposal, I guess because solids shouldn’t go down the drain. But we put a shit ton of solids down the drain through the toilet and that seems to be fine. Does the toilet go to a different sewage pipe then the sink? Or does shit have different properties that make it dissolve better?

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    As far as I know there are kind of 3 reasons:

    • Your sink pipes are smaller than your toilet pipes (by ALOT) which means that they clog easily
    • In some places your sink pipes and your toilet pipes go to different places. For example in some places the greywater (water from the sink) is let out in the open (which is fine as it is mostly just dirty soapy water) while wastewater (poopy) goes to the sewer.
    • Poop is usually not sticky and fatty while foods can be (imagine if you poured flour down the drain, it will become a sticky dough that will clog it)