How often do you run your dishwasher?

[henene4]

Just ran a "not-necessary" load:
The DW was loaded with mondays dishes, and as I prepeared pasta for the evening, I popped the pot and the strainer in and ran it on Auto with VarioSpeedPlus.
Funny thing: I always forget how powerfull the EcoSilence pump really is. It starts with medium spray pressure in the pre rinse, then it ramps up in the main wash.

I admit that I sometimes prerinse plates to get rid of ketchup because I hate scraping that off.
Oh, and pots get a short rinse with vinegar to get rid of that white residue our hard water leaves behind.

 

[lordkenmore]

I always rinse recycling. Well, stuff like food jars/cans. Rinsing mixed paper would create more problems than it would solve. LOL

The place where I take recycling insists that it be in clean condition--thus, just emptying a jar of whatever and tossing the jar into recycling won't fly.

 

[appnut]

I only rinse the recyclable plastics and tin cans. 

 

[ilovewindex]

Im lucky.. I dont pay for water

In the time i've lived here i've never paid a water bill... No meter, just straight piped in

City told me not to ask... SO i dont

However,

i hate recycling, so i just throw it in the huge lided container the city provides and go on with life.. WHne thats full i use the red bin for glass..

Too much to sort it all

I do rinse tuna cans and put lids on things

 

[tolivac]

Yes,I rinse out containers for my recycling bag-otherwise there will be a fat roach in the bottom of the container.Take my recyclables to the dump station out here-a dumpster is for cans,bottles and such.A compactor for trash-Baker.Other dumpster for newspapers,cardboard,electronics,and so on.Go to the Classic Refuse Trucks site and you see videos of RL and SL trash trucks collecting recyclables-now,how are we going to "recycle" these things when they are crushed together?
bottles pulverized,cans crushed,and paper contaminated with all of this.Guess they have good separation equipment at the dump point-or is this stuff "recycled" at all?Could just end up at the landfill!!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Now we're really talkin' TRASH!!!!

I still wish I could have my compost pile...

Years ago I bought a storage bin and just didn't put the bottom on it... Just to find it attracted rats, and even when I put rat poison there, there were dead ones all over the neighborhood...

To me, composting doesn't give me the feeling that I'm wasting food, a much as I feel when I put everything in the regular garbage... And I put out a lot less of it, too...

Luckily my dad can still be the Compost King! With a specially-made bin for composting, no rats in his side of our town, and all...

-- Dave

 

[panthera]

Addendum

The entertainment director at our house wishes that it be pointed out that until recently, the sewage system had been untouched since 1896, the dishwasher a BOL Hotpoint with rust holes one could (and, apparently did,) poke steak knives through, and a garbage disposer emptying into a calcified drain pipe with 3/8" opening.

I came at the same time as STTP, new sewage system, new dishwasher, new garbage disposal, new drains and a trash compactor.