INC NEWS - Fw: [whhna-list] Dog poop/Waste collection rules

[bragin at nc.rr.com]

The harder we make it for people to pick up after their dogs, the more 
dog poop is going to be left behind in our parks, our streets, and on 
our lawns.

Barry Ragin

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike - Hotmail <mwshiflett at hotmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:34 pm
Subject: INC NEWS -  Fw: [whhna-list] Dog poop/Waste collection rules

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Diane McKay" <nczephdog at yahoo.com>
> To: <whhna-list at rtpnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:49 AM
> Subject: [whhna-list] Dog poop/Waste collection
> rules
> 
> 
> Here's the scoop (groan) from the City of Durham re: dog waste 
> collection. 
> I spoke to a representative this morning:
> 
> Dog waste should be double-bagged if it is to be collected 
> curbside, for 
> these reasons:
> 
> If a small bag of doo falls out of the cart while the cart is being 
> emptied 
> into the truck, the agents will flip the little bag back into the 
> cart and 
> "green tag"
> the cart.  These green tags outline the protocol that has been 
> violated--in 
> this case, "loose" garbage "improperly bagged."  I'm sure I'm not 
> the only
> one who has come home from work at the end of the collection day to 
> find 
> such a tag on my cart (and no, I do not leave my cart at the curb 
> for days 
> at a
> time to serve as an invitation for public dumping).
> 
> This has happened to me on two occasions since I moved here in mid-
> June, 
> which is why I posted my objections in the first place:  I wound up 
> fishing 
> the rank
> little bags out of the bottom of the cart and placing them into a 
> sealed 
> kitchen bag so that they would be collected the following week.
> 
> Here's another interesting tidbit from the city of Durham:  animal 
> waste is 
> considered hazardous waste. It emits a high amount of fumes.  
> Sometimes, 
> when
> a truck returns to the transfer station, if its load is "too fumy," 
> it 
> triggers an alarm, and work must stop while the fumes are cleared. 
> Double-bagging dog
> poo means that the fumes are lessened, which means that the workers 
> can 
> perform their jobs more efficiently (I also would imagine that they 
> are 
> grateful for
> anything we can do to make the jobs more pleasant).
> 
> After the representative told me this, I was reminded that my 
> friends at the 
> Scrap Exchange plow through several tons of garbage every day 
> looking for
> reusable materials.  I wonder if double-bagging means less 
> contamination of 
> these materials.
> 
> So:  double-bagging is not only courteous to those neighbors who do 
> not 
> appreciate the little gifts left behind in their carts (any ideas 
> about how 
> to
> identify them that do and them that don't??), it is courteous to 
> workers who 
> have to endure tough working conditions as it is.  It means work 
> gets done 
> more
> efficiently, too.
> 
> If you have environmental objections to double-bagging, perhaps you 
> would be 
> interested in these products:
> 
> http://www.ecoproducts.com/Home/home_biobags/home_index_biobags.htm
> Diane
> 
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