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

[Deb Christie]

I read that the ideal is to flush the contents of doggie bags cat waste 
scooped out of the litter down the toilet - many jurisdictions prohibit the 
placing of meat-eating animals into landfills at all.

Deb Christie

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From: "Mike - Hotmail" <mwshiflett at hotmail.com>
To: <inc-list at durhaminc.org>
Sent: 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
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> 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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