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

[Regina deLacy]

Then what about Pampers?  I recall reading that, after telephone 
directories and newspapers, disposable diapers (from meat eating human 
animals) constitute the largest component of landfills.

Deb Christie wrote:

> 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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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike - Hotmail" 
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:34 PM
> Subject: INC NEWS - Fw: [whhna-list] Dog poop/Waste collection rules
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>> mike
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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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