The kitchen sink... #1) we don't have a garbage disposal, by choice. For the critical thinker, an observation is that garbage disposals grind food into small particles and send them into the municipal wastewater system to be treated. This means the particulate must be filtered out and dealt with independently of the liquid water. Do you think this is an efficient system? Might there be a better way? What about composting? Food scraps go directly to smaller organisms which eat or otherwise break down very small particles into, ultimately, their elements. How efficient is that?! What great systems nature provides! #2) Also we don't have a dishwasher, by choice. The dish drainer is sloped with an open side toward the sink. Water droplets, as they fall from freshly-washed dishes, are funneled into the sink.
Therefore, the protocol(s) surrounding kitchen sink use are as follows: It is extremely helpful to keep an eye on this open side of the dish drainer and make sure water is actually draining into the sink and not onto the counter.
Additionally, dishes must be washed and put into the drainer (to state the obvious). After that, dishes must be put away! Whether someone takes this on as their "department", or whether each person puts away the dishes they washed, it needs done.
The sink drain catchers capture food particles, which can be composted! The more everyone gets into a habit of routinely cleaning sink drain strainers, the less anyone will get stuck cleaning up after everyone else. This is often perceived as a relatively shitty job no one particularly relishes doing, so it is appreciated if everyone takes a turn as they go; before it gets "really bad", becomes an issue, a point of contention, or a source of resentment toward Others. Thank you!
Bathroom sinks (not pictured) have "hair catchers'. Also not pictured are the "hamsters" which seem to turn up wherever there is much hair. The successful system observed includes a tricky item which must be used intermittently to collect the "hamster" and clear the drain. This is something we would prefer to do ourselves, under most circumstances. What you can do to help is: 1) Keep a hair catcher in place and let it provide a big, important, fancy role in preventing hair from going down the drain. 2) Clean the hair catcher and compost the hair on a regular basis! 3) By all means let us know if the drain starts to drain slowly.
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