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I've measured my (previously owned dishwasher; don't have one at the moment), and compared it to handwashing in terms of water used. How did I measure it? I ha
by PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
I've measured my (previously owned dishwasher; don't have one at the moment), and compared it to handwashing in terms of water used.
How did I measure it? I had the DW drain into a bucket.
The DW won hands down. I also learnt to wash dishes without the water running when I was a kid.
Yes, the proviso that you should only run it when it is full is important, but I assumed everyone knew that.
- defrost 3y agoThe other twist on water 'waste' is where does it go afterwards for recovery? Cities often have systems, we're in rural Australia and are water conscious- as far as dish and clothes washing go that's grey water discharge which goes onto a near house mulch pit for household rottables and garden waste, the water that reaches the pit bottom hits a crushed stone bed with slotted pipe that drains water to above the vegetable garden and fruit trees (between the leach drains ) where it moves through the soil making tomatoes, potatoes, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, etc. No dishwasher, no tap running - but regardless of how much water we use in the kitchen none of that truly goes to waste, if we use more we just put less on the garden from the same source tanks (which are all level gauged).
- 1over137 3y agoDoes that filter all the microplastics from washed clothes?
- defrost 3y agoMicroplastics shed from synthetic fibre clothes probably stay in the mulch, crushed rock and sand and don't reach the roots of the vegetables and trees and don't feature in the runoff (from sub surface water travel) at the base of the slope. Mulch on garden with microplastics is likely ok as plants extract the minerals | elements they need. I'd have to sample and check. A great deal of our clothing, bedding, towels, etc is natural fibre in any case.