Table Scraps: Kitchen Waste Is Often Water Waste

The only part I don’t like about recent hand washing graphics I’ve seen around is the last step: Use a paper towel to turn off the water. Is the water running the whole time you’re drying? And during the whole 20-second wash? How much water is just gushing away here?

I am in no way condoning a change in this procedure at this time. Go nuts. But maybe we can make up for lost water in other ways, in other rooms of the house. Like the kitchen. And since wasting water happens often in this area, I consider it kitchen waste (and therefore a perfect fit for this series).

Where Water Concerns Probably Began for 30-Somethings

I was an impressionable Floridian kid — the target demographic for any environmental youth campaigns launched in the 1990s.

Nickelodeon started its earth-friendly campaigns under “The Big Help” around 1994. It was all about planting trees, recycling, and turning off lights and faucets. Then there was Z.Z. Ziff on Salute Your Shorts, who took two-minute showers or something — and I am not the only one who was influenced by Camp Anawanna activism.