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Many people leave their bottles of dish soap next to the kitchen sink. And why not? It's very convenient when you need a quick shot of soap to wash a pan after dinner or wash your hands before eating.
The problem is that this leads to massive amounts of soap waste. Typically, when you tilt the bottle and squeeze, it's hard to use less than about teaspoon of soap, but generally that is 10 times more than is required for the cleaning job at-hand.
A better way is to get a spray bottle or pump, and fill it with 10 parts water and 1 part dish soap. Swish it around to make sure they mix well. Put the dish soap bottle away in the cupboard, and leave the spray bottle / pump next to your sink for the quick clean-ups.
You'll find that one or two shots from the spray bottle / pump is more than enough to do the small cleaning jobs, and when you plan to do a full sink full of dishes, THEN bring out the squeeze bottle.
Once I started doing this, I found that I was using about 1/5 the dish soap that I used to go through. At around $2.50 per bottle of soap, that's a significant saving over time.
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