Eco-Question: Hand washing dishes or dishwasher? Current Green

Umbra Fisk tells us whether you save water washing dishes by hand or using the dishwasher.
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[douglasdeleu]

Five gallons per minute? Are you guys insane? Here in Europe we don't leave the water running while we do the dishes. So thats max 3 gallons of water to fill up the sink.

Also, how ecofriendly is the production and disposal of your washer? And how much soap do you put in the dishwasher compared to handwash? Which one is more toxic do you think?

I think Umbra never did any dishes in her life.

ANSWER: Just learn to do the dishes by hand the proper way if you want to be ecofriendly.

[buddyholly28]

5 gallons per minute? whaaaaa? who? People who don't own plugs? People who don't know how to turn taps off?

[physivic]

Yeeahhhh.... nice music, good hat... but incomplete thinking. If someone watches the video, are they presumed to be the "average" hand-washer, with that ridiculous figure? How about using that moment to say "don't leave the water running because, if you do, the machines will replace you!!"

[mrhobbit007]

Yep, dishwashers are the efficiency king. But have you ever tried making love efficiently? If you love Mother Earth, you'd have absolutely zero interest in showing it 'efficiently'. Unreasonable corporations misuse 'efficiency' to confuse, control and enslave truly loving souls into their profiteering schemes.

Mother Nature only understands, knows, and encourages EFFECTIVE love making. Consuming the Earth to spit out "labor saving" machines is hardly an effective way to clean a dish!!!

[mrhobbit007]

Yep, dishwashers are the efficiency king. But have you ever tried making love efficiently? If you love Mother Earth, you'd have absolutely zero interest in showing it 'efficiently'. Unreasonable corporations misuse 'efficiency' to confuse, control and enslave truly loving souls into their profiteering schemes.

Mother Nature only understands, knows, and encourages EFFECTIVE love making. Consuming the Earth to spit out "labor saving" machines is hardly an effective way to clean a dish!!!

[mrhobbit007]

Yep, dishwashers are the efficiency king. But have you ever tried making love efficiently? If you love Mother Earth, you'd have absolutely zero interest in showing it 'efficiently'. Unreasonable corporations misuse 'efficiency' to confuse, control and enslave truly loving souls into their profiteering schemes.

Mother Nature only understands, knows, and encourages EFFECTIVE love making. Consuming the Earth to spit out "labor saving" machines is hardly an effective way to clean a dish!!!

[Daniel2Beck]

a dish washer that uses 15 gallons of water!?!? how crazy is that? an average european dish washer uses 12-20 liters!!! thats like 4 gallons!

[SaleemsGoreeWife]

You would only use five gallons per minute handwashing if you left the water on all the time. I have never met anyone who used that much water before in my life. Mostly we wash them with very little water and then rinse them in a tub of water, which would be way less than 15 gallons of water, don't you think? Plus what about the electricity? The only electricity I use when washing dishes is the water heater for my possible 2 gallons of water and the light bulb in the evening.

[bernardzyx]

I believe this is an urban legend. One uses less water and energy by hand washing dishes ptrovided you don`t let the water run the entire time.

[nocturne1980]

If you use a stopper and a squirt or two of dish washing liquid...you save water and dish liquid.

[drmkkk]

@ GhostIntoTheFog

me too, but we really need to start asking the right questions