Rainwater Harvesting

In some areas, water conservation is not only crucial—it’s required. Consider this: a 2000 sq ft roof can provide over 1,125 gallons of water from one inch rainfall, which can then be used to flush toilets, water gardens, and provide up to 60% of your homes annual water needs if properly collected. Whether water is scarce or plentiful RainTube® should be the leading element in your rainwater collection system. And RainSpace™ takes it one step further, allowing you to capture, store, and reuse that water in your own personal water storage chambers.

Collecting and pre-filtering water is a good start, but the benefits of RainTube® do not stop there. Its porous, debris-rejecting design ensures that all available water gets collected. Keeping debris out of the gutters reduces the load on filter elements and allows the water to flow unencumbered to the storage container—whether you choose to use a RainSpace™ catchment system or a BarrelMan rain barrel.

RainTube® has a long life and is made from 100% post-consumer recycled products. These “green” standards are more than just good for the environment, they’re also good for your wallet—by helping to keep the costs low. RainTube® is a valuable, essential component of your water collection and catchment system.

Compelling facts about recycling plastic materials:

  • 17 one-gallon milk jugs are reused to make one 13’ length of RainTube.
  • 227 one-gallon milk jugs are reused to protect the gutters of an average home with RainTube.
  • The energy saved by recycling one plastic bottle will power a computer for 25 minutes.
  • Americans toss out 14.4 million tons of plastic every year according to the Plastics Museum.
  • Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
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All RainTech products have been certified for their material content, recyclability and manufacturing characteristics. Learn about Cradle to Cradle here or visit C2Ccertified.com