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I have incorporated ways to lessen my footprint/use less power since moving to Little Rock into an apartment. I put a greywater 5 gallon bucket under my kitchen sink. I use this to flush the toilet(and thinking about using it to water my non-edible plants, thoughts anyone?). I have replaced the light in the living room with christmas lights & will soon do this for the rest of the rooms. I have vowed not to use air conditioning & hope I can stick to my guns. Recycling obviously. Making my own beer (saves aluminum bottles), biking instead of driving(sold my car). Composting food scraps. Not using a dryer for more then 10 minutes (just a little pre-dry for hang-drying). I would love to throw some type of solar on the roof, but not sure if that could happen. Thoughts on that?

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Comment by Lim Wei Chiang Bryan on March 23, 2010 at 12:34pm
+1 Spark, good to hear you're doing your own part. it's huge! keep it up! maybe a few photos of your sink? This will give us not only inspiration to help but also a concrete example on your water management.

I love this idea!
Comment by Peggie Scott on March 25, 2010 at 1:21pm
Hi Zack, how do you get the grey water into the bucket? Do you divert it somehow, or just use a pan to transfer it?
Comment by Massive Attack on March 25, 2010 at 1:51pm
It just goes straight into the bucket through the
Remaining small pipe connected to the sink. I'll. Put up a picture later
Comment by Turil Cronburg on March 30, 2010 at 3:21pm
You can water all plants, edible and otherwise, with graywater as long as you don't use any detergents, and instead use soap to wash with. Soap is fine for plants, as long as it's reasonably diluted. You might want to combine your shower/bath water with the sink water for a more diluted water for your plants.
Comment by Turil Cronburg on March 30, 2010 at 3:23pm
Oh, and check your holiday lights, they might be using more electricity than normal compact florescent bulbs. Even the LED ones use a lot of energy compared to a regular old 15-20 watt compact florescent.
Comment by Massive Attack on March 30, 2010 at 4:28pm
Ok thanks. That's what I thought, I just started using it to water my plants
Comment by Bonan Zhang on April 30, 2010 at 4:37am
Wow that all sounds amazing! Can you post some pictures of what you've done?

Solar would be a great step. A lot of houses here in China use solar for heating water. I think it's relatively inexpensive if you order directly from China, but you'll have to set up your own plumbing.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/272154844/Solar_heating.html
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/281568628/Solar_Heating.html
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/287659073/Solar_Heat_Products.html

Also, if you have the room, you can start composting. My family keeps a small vegetable garden and buries all our organic trash, mostly leftover food that's gone sour and vegetable peels. My Dad found that rotten milk is an amazing fertilizer. But it smells haha

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