For years I've been washing my dishes in a peculiar way to extend the usefulness of the water consumed. I soap each item up and set it on the counter without rinsing. When everything's been soaped, I then rinse them in a stack, letting the run-off from one dish help to rinse the rest. When I'm finished I've got a large puddle of soapy clean water on the counter, where the dishes were waiting to be rinsed. I then sop that up and use it to wipe down the refrigerator, the backsplash, the trash cans, the floor, et cetera. I look at it as free Windex.
Spanish design collective La Muda has encapsulated this behavior in product form with their Ecucubo Sustainable Basin, a simple but brilliant concept for a sink whose drainage can be diverted into a bucket integrated directly into the sink's form. Greywater can now be handily used to mop the floor, promoting what La Muda terms "eco-behavior."
via treehugger
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