Analysis of the Pros and Cons of Kitchen Sink Strainer Basket Filters

The best way to know whether a household is tidy and clean is to check the places related to drainage pipes. This is the most neglected yet most grime-collecting part of the home.

For example, the bathroom drain, the washing machine outlet, and the kitchen sink drain related to today’s topic.

Although in recent years sink drains (also called drain assemblies) provide stainless steel strainer baskets and P-traps that prevent sewer odors from backing up and insects and cockroaches from crawling out, the heavy oil of Chinese-style dishes and the food scraps left from preparing raw ingredients still add a lot of trouble to the dishwashing work.

In fact, simply installing a “sink filter” made with an ultra-fine mesh on the sink’s strainer basket can easily filter out residue, keep the sink clean and reduce bacterial growth, and even help prevent pipe clogs!

Since I started using the strainer basket filter, every day I just wait until after washing dishes at night, lift out the filter and the food scraps inside with one hand, and easily toss the whole bag away.

Moreover, because a lot of the grease and bacteria are retained on the debris inside the filter, the drain below is indeed less likely to accumulate grease and bacterial clumps (which, if not cleaned for a long time, form slime-mold-like deposits on the walls), which has a positive and proactive significance for maintaining hygiene and pipe flow.

Although the benefits are pretty good, it also has some problems, which you can understand before using it.

Besides the extra expense of a small, cheap cost that was not originally needed but is also nice to have, the main problem lies in its material being polyester fiber.

If someone picks it up and throws it directly into the food waste bin of the garbage truck, whether it is taken to feed pigs or used as organic fertilizer to bury and grow vegetables and fruit, the plastic particles inside will still return to our bodies and continue to be absorbed and deposited.

So if you want to use this kind of filter, I suggest throwing it directly into the garbage truck.

Product reference: Sink filter (MOMO)