Product Review: Hughie Sink
Absolutely love it. No longer do you need to feel guilty about washing your vegetables twice or thrice for that matter – you can now reuse the water and put it back into the garden. Beauty! I bought my sink at an Eco exhibition sometime ago and have never since looked back.
Hughie Sink. Notice the pail at the top right corner? Yup, use that to temporary capture water from the sink
My garden runs purely from greywater and no, I do not have a greywater system. I collect water around the house, that would otherwise go down the drain, to reuse it in the garden. Hughie sink just makes it so, I repeat, so easy. You fill it up, wash your vegetables and empty it directly to the garden. I usually empty mine into a pail and then later transfer it to the garden; this saves me the trip of walking to and fro to the garden while cooking.
Pro:
- Australian made
- Water saving. Duh!
- Made with good quality study plastic. Not the flimsy kind
- Inexpensive
- No need for any ‘special installation’. Just buy and use it.
- Sits nicely in the kitchen sink. Works even better if you have a 2 bay sink.
- There is a plug at the bottom to make releasing of water really easy!
- Can be used anywhere (not only kitchen) where water needs to be captured and later used on the garden
- You can even use it as a basket to carry your harvest!
Con:
- Its somewhat ‘chunky’. You cannot collaspe it, making storage a problem in tight spaces.
- When its almost filled with water, its hard to carry to the garden without spilling some along the way
- Due to its rectangle shape, you can’t fit it in a circular sink. (but of course)
- Looks ……. raw. If only it looks more ‘urban’ (you know what I mean)
You can get buy yours today from Bunnings ($29.95) or through these websites
Hughie official website
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