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Greywater-Saving Sink Design

By Rain Noe - September 27, 2011

in Sustainable Design

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."

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Rosalia (laMuda)

13 years ago

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Ecocubo is not a product for business or restaurants. The product is designed for a use in a house and for users who take care about the environment. The user decide if the water can have a second use or not, the second use is not always cleaning can be watering plants or instead of flushing the toilet.
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Dubya

13 years ago

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While I think grey water systems are a great idea, I think this is a terrible idea. Grey water is not clean and should not be used for cleaning. Think about what you wash off your hands, do you want to then use that water to "clean" your floor? Also leaving mop buckets filled with water is often a health code violation for a restaurant and business. This is a fail in my book.
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