What to do with RODI waste???

[mseepman]

Originally Posted by mike31154

Garden summer, toilets winter. I have several large plastic barrels in the basement for keeping it during the winter. Some folks also use it in their washers, but I have front loading which use very little water, so not feasible for me.

How do you use it for toilets

[Duffer2]

I run a small black 3/4" line outside to my trees for the summer. I move the line every week to a different tree. In the winter I can't find an easy feasible solution yet, except as an occasional top-up for my hot-tub.

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by mseepman

How do you use it for toilets

Ha, ha, didn't want to get into too much detail, but basically it's 'bucket brigade'. Certainly not for everyone, haul the bucket upstairs & dump the bucket into the toilet to flush after you do your thing.

Gaffer actually has hit the nail on the head. These days our homes should be fitted with a grey water system that reuses things like dishwater, RODI waste, old saltwater etc. in a separate pressurized system to service the toilets. It's a total waste to use fresh drinking water to flush. Especially here in the North Okanagan where we're dealing with Stage 2 water restrictions.

[Doug]

Yep. My wife makes my ro water and uses most all waste for her washing machine.

Thats funny about bucketing to the toilet. Its how we flushed our basement toilet at my grandparents house.

[mark]

realize there more to being green than saving money, but at a dollar something for cubic meter (plus sewer cost as based on water in) my waste just goes down the drain.

Had thought about sending to the rain barrel for summer but since it's stays pretty full just with the rain, effectively I'd just be dumping the waste anyways.

Related question though, how for can you run the 1/4" OD waste water line without causing back pressure problems to the ro unit?

[littlesilvermax]

Originally Posted by mark

realize there more to being green than saving money, but at a dollar something for cubic meter (plus sewer cost as based on water in) my waste just goes down the drain.

Had thought about sending to the rain barrel for summer but since it's stays pretty full just with the rain, effectively I'd just be dumping the waste anyways.

Related question though, how for can you run the 1/4" OD waste water line without causing back pressure problems to the ro unit?

Back pressure really shouldn't be a problem, as there is a restrictor on the waste line anyways.

If you were concerned about it, then run 3/8 hose vs 1/4.

[whatcaneyedo]

One of these systems will pump the waste water into your hot water tank. http://bwiplumbing.com/index.php/aqu...retro-kit.html

[jzz30tt]

Waste water runs into a 70+ Gallon Retention tank. Shur-flo pump to a small pressure tank plumbed as an expansion tank tee'd into the supply for the main toilet in the house. Valves on both feeds to isolate the toilet from either the house supply or the RO waste supply when the other is in use. Also plumb a high level overflow to the drain in the case of the waste water filling the retention tank. Can also be used to run other things but the more usage needed the bigger pump and therefore more expense in supplying the water for those uses from the retention tank.

Scott