A new study investigating the effects of food waste systems has revealed that disposing of organic waste in the sink is better for the environment than landfill. The study also found that getting rid of food waste in a food waste disposer instead of using commercial composting offered power-saving advantages. The study, a Life Cycle Assessment (Life Cycle Assessment, LCA) commissioned by InSinkErator, found that throwing food scraps into the household rubbish, which then finds its way to landfill sites, produces twice the amount of potential global warming than to process food waste by food waste disposers installed in the kitchen sink. When food waste is discarded into the household garbage, a series of environmentally harmful activities occurs, all with a negative effect on the environment. Firstly, there is the use of garbage bags which are not biodegradable, plus the disadvantages of garbage trucks powered by diesel fuel which emit various air pollutants whilst carrying the waste to landfills. In addition to producing offensive odors and attracting insects and rodents, rotting waste in landfills generates methane, a greenhouse gas harmful to the environment that is at least 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Food in a state of putrefaction also contributes to leachate, a liquid waste acid that can leach out and contaminate groundwater. Juan Carlos Martin, manager of InSinkErator Sales and Marketing in Latin America says To contextualize the results of this study, a community of 30,000 homes could prevent the equivalent of more than 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions if most of their food waste goes through a food waste disposer to a facility wastewater treatment rather than to a garbage dump. Its like removing 4.6 million miles of automobile traffic.