Waste Not, Want Not: Water-Collecting Dish Drainer
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 11. 2.07
TreeHugger is always on the lookout for materials, ideas, designs and concepts that make the most of what we have and wasting as little as possible; it's a key idea for anyone who wants to maximize the reach of their lives while minimizing their footprint on the planet.
For example, for those of you without dishwashers: ever think about what happens to all the water that drains off your rinsed dishes? (We didn't think so.) Designer Erdem Selek did, and came up with the "Dish Drainer Project," a tree-like contraption that collects the water dripping from your recently-cleaned dishes and waters your plants with it.
It probably wouldn't work for a family of five's-worth of dishes every night, but we think that it'd help contextualize all the water that we all mindlessly waste every day, and show that you really care about being smart about your resource use. We have this funny image of people with dishes all over their homes, dinner plates patiently watering their plants after an evening meal. It might seem a trifle silly to some, but it certainly beats letting that water pool up in your dish drainer, and, hey, waste not, want not. Hit the jump for more pics. ::Erdem Selek via ::Yanko Design
This is a silly design. I use more dishes to eat breakfast than would fit on this contraption. And what happens if soap is still left on the dishes? The plant would die! It looks cute and that's aboutit!
The plant would die? What the hell kind of soap are you using? Get a good natural biodegradable dish soap.
Duh.
I thought the design, while not always practical, was cute and creative. Hat's off to someone for using their head and having a bit of fun with it.
Chris
The plant would die? What the hell kind of soap are you using? Get a good natural biodegradable dish soap.
Duh.
I thought the design, while not always practical, was cute and creative. Hat's off to someone for using their head and having a bit of fun with it.
Chris
Take a normal dish rack and place it in a cookie sheet/tray. This will capture all the water and once you put the dishes away you can get to the sheet/tray so you can dump the water into your watering jug. No need to spend money/waste materials getting a specialty/limited use item.
"Take a normal dish rack and place it in a cookie sheet/tray. "
I like that idea better. This dish rack is creative, but it doesn't look like it would hold much.
"Take a normal dish rack and place it in a cookie sheet/tray. "
I like that idea better. This dish rack is creative, but it doesn't look like it would hold much.
I love it. Very creative, and it's simple enough to justify the novelty.
Rather than waiting for them to make a bigger one -- and forking out for their designer lifestyle -- I might track down a friend who knew how to weld.
Yeah lets have the Chinese manufacture more useless crap like this. I have to agree with Ken's comment
I agree with Ken too. Much more water is going to go into the production, transport etc of this product that will be "saved" by it -- a few millilitres a day! It's not saved anyway -- without it you don't have a tree and don't need to water anything!
That dish rack is creative but it doesn't look like it would hold much
There's another product with the same idea (+more!)
Flow by John Arndt
http://2modern.blogs.com/2modern/2007/10/flow.html
(via 2modern)
man, you guys are butts, don't criticize it.
if you don't like it, keep your opinions to yourself!
i love it.
That's a PAPER PLATE!!!!
How can we take it Serious????