I think the only polyester thing I have is a shower curtain. Wearing polyester is disgusting. Water saving: I quit watering the lawn, installed drip irrigation on almost all my veg and flowers, almost never wash a garment til it is visibly dirty (usually really dirty), wear a lot of cotton (old cotton t-shirts make wonderful dish rags, if you keep them rinsed out they don't smell at all), and sleep on linen which I adore. I do put garments that have gotten really sweaty in the laundry and lots of things get wet with sweat in our summers. California has mandated 1.23 gallon toilets. The old standard was 5 gallons. Shower heads have to have the flow restricted to 1.5 gallons per minute. I have not yet diverted my grey water (everything but toilet water) to the outside, but it is on my list of things to do one of these days. I never see a mention of drip irrigation in English or Scottish gardening programs so I presume few people use it in Britain. Drip really does save water by doing targeted watering at rate that the soil can absorb. Since it is done at ground, or just below ground level it reduced evaporative loss as well. On the other hand drip tubing is plastic. A sad note for me is that Brit Box quit streaming Beachgrove Gardens and Landward in America. I can't find another American distributor for Beachgrove or Landward for the 2025 season. Grrrr.
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Water saving: I quit watering the lawn, installed drip irrigation on almost all my veg and flowers, almost never wash a garment til it is visibly dirty (usually really dirty), wear a lot of cotton (old cotton t-shirts make wonderful dish rags, if you keep them rinsed out they don't smell at all), and sleep on linen which I adore. I do put garments that have gotten really sweaty in the laundry and lots of things get wet with sweat in our summers.
California has mandated 1.23 gallon toilets. The old standard was 5 gallons. Shower heads have to have the flow restricted to 1.5 gallons per minute.
I have not yet diverted my grey water (everything but toilet water) to the outside, but it is on my list of things to do one of these days.
I never see a mention of drip irrigation in English or Scottish gardening programs so I presume few people use it in Britain. Drip really does save water by doing targeted watering at rate that the soil can absorb. Since it is done at ground, or just below ground level it reduced evaporative loss as well. On the other hand drip tubing is plastic.
A sad note for me is that Brit Box quit streaming Beachgrove Gardens and Landward in America. I can't find another American distributor for Beachgrove or Landward for the 2025 season. Grrrr.