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The Thing About Rinsing Your Recyclables
A land steward's take on a piece of household orthodoxy that doesn't quite hold up. I was rinsing out a milk jug at my kitchen sink the other day, hot water running, sloshing it around to break up the film of dried milk along the inside, and I caught myself doing the math. We're in the third year of on-and-off drought across most of Central Texas. The Edwards Aquifer just dropped from Stage 4 to Stage 3 restrictions a week ago, and only because spring rains pulled J-17 back a

Cody Nelson
May 415 min read
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