Dog Waste Disposal
Friday January 2, 2009
If you landscape in a yard with dogs, then dog waste disposal is one of your less palatable landscaping chores. Dog waste disposal isn't as straightforward a chore as you might think. One problem is that not all communities agree on what your legitimate dog waste disposal options are. In some towns, dog waste may be classified as a hazardous substance, meaning you can't just put it out with the garbage, while other communities encourage precisely this manner of dog waste disposal. So what do you do with the do-do? You'll have to check with city hall, to be sure. But here are the recommendations from one community for dog waste disposal.
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I just use flushable dog poop bags and flush poop down the toilet. Easiest and most eco-friendly way to deal with dog poop.
I too believe that dogs waste contain hazardous substance. “People obviously love their dogs, but the problem is you can see people picking up after their dog, and then wondering what do with it.”
Here’s a step-by-step description:
1. Get hold of and aged trash bin and bore an dozen about hollows inwards the side of meat.
2. Cut down the bottom of the inning
3. Gibe an hole inwards the background, deeply plenty for the dustbin.
4. Chuck out a few stones or flummox in the hole out because drainage and position the trash bin and so it has a bit gamier than the colly charge.
5. Place the lid on top
6. When you scoop some poop, put it in the hole and sprinkle in some septic starter (available at hardware stores) and add some water.
So it was leached into the ground and contaminate eventually to rivers and streams?
The only products that sound like what you discuss are not manufactured in the US?
Thanks
Thanks for your excellent elucidation of the dog waste problem. I was looking for a Doggie waste disposal system. I have stopped looking. I will continue to toss it in the trash until new technology comes around to make local disposal safe.
Here is my issue to people who think dog waste is “hazardous”. Wild animals make waste as well, in much larger quantities, as do livestock and horses. Where I live you are more likely to run into horse manure than you are dog feces and no one requires them to clean up and dispose of their horse’s feces. Dog feces are just a tiny insignificant drop in the bucket. At least it it natural waste as opposed to the litter, emissions, and pollution that people do every second of the day. It’s ridiculous to me to make such laws and to regulate such a non issue when there are such larger problems that need to be addressed.
Carolyn,
I’m glad you’re challenging conventional wisdom about the dog-waste disposal issue: we need more people who try to reason out such matters rather than falling into line just because someone has dropped a magic word like “hazardous.” I would only caution you over your use of the term “natural”:
Lots of things that can harm you, or even kill you, are natural. In medieval Europe, many people tossed the contents of chamber pots — a “natural” substance — out into the streets; is it any wonder that disease was rampant?
By the way, it isn’t just dog waste disposal that is an issue. For example, cat poop shouldn’t be used to make compost for food crops, because of the pathogens it contains. People will sometimes object, “Well, how come horse manure or cow manure is okay for compost then?” But when you compare carnivores to farm animals, you’re really comparing apples to oranges.
Why not think about using compost worms to dispose of dog poo? We are worm farmers and have been using this method for many years in large kennels and breeders’ establishments, plus we have developed a domestic system called the ‘DOO DOO LOO’ which copes with the waste of 1-2 average sized dogs. The only proviso we make is that you don’t use the castings thus produced on edible vegetable growing in your garden. Enquiries are welcome.