There disclosed a water reuse method in which a surfactant is easily
removed from surfactant-including for-treatment water in a cleaning
device, whereby water can be reused, and an adsorbent can easily be
regenerated only by exposing the adsorbent to an electrolytic solution,
and a washing machine including the function. The method includes a
surfactant adsorption treatment step of performing a treatment to adsorb
and remove a surfactant in surfactant-including for-treatment water such
as cleaning water and rinse water used in a washing machine W by
hydrotalcite as an anion exchanger or zeolite as a cation exchanger, and
a water reuse step of using, in the washing machine W, the for-treatment
water treated in the surfactant adsorption treatment step.