I keep a bucket on or near my kitchen sink and one near my bathtub and use them when I run the water to get it warm. All that water going down the drain while waiting is wasteful. I then pour it into jugs for watering plants either inside or outside. I've started using soap nuts in my laundry, less chemicals in our water and using only vinegar and baking soda to clean toilets and sinks for the same reason. I soak my paint brushes in a small container of water to rinse them. I put a screen in the lid of a 5 gal. bucket, then a coffee filter and then pour the rinse water in to catch the paint. Later, I dump the water outside near poison ivy or away from the property and when dry, the coffee filter in the trash.
I keep a bucket on or near my kitchen sink and one near my bathtub and use them when I run the water to get it warm. All that water going down the drain while waiting is wasteful. I then pour it into jugs for watering plants either inside or outside. I've started using soap nuts in my laundry, less chemicals in our water and using only vinegar and baking soda to clean toilets and sinks for the same reason. I soak my paint brushes in a small container of water to rinse them. I put a screen in the lid of a 5 gal. bucket, then a coffee filter and then pour the rinse water in to catch the paint. Later, I dump the water outside near poison ivy or away from the property and when dry, the coffee filter in the trash.