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InSinkErator executives say they have used those results to help persuade officials in Sydney, Australia, and in Japan to largely repeal longstanding bans on disposals.

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InSinkErator, a Racine, Wis., unit of Emerson Electric Co., has been lobbying local governments in Europe and in parts of Asia in the hope of altering the perception that garbage disposals are a water-guzzling convenience that can clog pipes and overtax sewage-treatment plants.

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InSinkErator, which says it makes about 80% of the garbage disposals in use world-wide, had virtually no sales in Europe in the early 1990s.

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InSinkErator has pitched disposals as an especially good fit in densely populated Europe, since the devices could help reduce congestion from garbage trucks.

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Her research, funded by InSinkErator, analyzed the costs and environmental impact of five methods of managing food waste, including trucking it to landfills and to compost yards.

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In the U.S., where about half of households already have garbage disposals, InSinkErator has largely eschewed the environmental pitch.

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The green strategy has helped InSinkErator to nearly double its world-wide sales in the past decade to close to $500 million annually, say people familiar with the situation.

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InSinkErator, who sells the majority of garbage disposals across the country, used such studies to push New York officials to drop their ban and hope to do the same in North Carolina.

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Mr. Evans also has worked for InSinkErator and waste-water companies.

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In the U.S., where InSinkErator sold about 6.9 million disposals in 2006, according to Appliance magazine, many engineers say that using more disposals would require revamping waste-water treatment plants, which often already receive about as much organic waste as they can handle.

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