Thursday, November 8, 2007

#2: Bottle Blonde

Today's Shenanigan is something that I have been wanting to do for a while. The thing that always held me back was that I thought I needed to order special materials for it. Obviously I wasn't thinking like a Reduce-Reuse-Recycler,
now was I?
So, using my crafty Triple-R wiles, I used an old water bottle to cut down on water-wasting flow in my toilet tanks.



It's a very simple process, really. You just take an old, Earth-killing plastic water bottle, toss a few small rocks or a bit of sand to weigh it down, fill the bottle with water (this isn't wasteful because it's pretty much a one-time fill-up) and stick it in your toilet tank. The idea is that it keeps your tank from filling up with precious H2O any higher than it needs to! Hooray!

Some do this by sticking a brick in the tank, but apparently, the bricks will disentigrate and the minerals get into the water system and, well, what's the point of saving water if you're just going to poison it, hm?

Note the sheer glee on my face at the idea of putting things in my toilet tank:

Now when you watch a movie where a bad guy hides drugs or money in his toilet tank, you can feel good that at least he's rounding out karma by giving back to water conservation.

And don't you feel bad for cheering when he was run down by his enemies? I thought so.

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