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

[Deb Christie]

This was pretty garbled!  I meant to say, many jurisdictions prohibit the 
placing of the feces of meat-eating animals into landfills, so owners of 
cats and dogs are expected to flush their feces down their toilets, just as 
they would the contents of the diapers of their infants (even when you use 
otherwise disposable diapers).

Deb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deb Christie" <dchristie1 at nc.rr.com>
To: "Mike - Hotmail" <mwshiflett at hotmail.com>; <inc-list at durhaminc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: INC NEWS - Fw: [whhna-list] Dog poop/Waste collection rules


>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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>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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