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

[Mike - Hotmail]

These are very good questions!

I don't know the answers.

but I've forwarded this message on to Mitch Archer (our man in the know at 
Solid Waste) for him to give us the poop.

aarrg!
mike




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Regina deLacy" <rdelacy at hvfnorth.com>
To: "Deb Christie" <dchristie1 at nc.rr.com>
Cc: "Mike - Hotmail" <mwshiflett at hotmail.com>; <inc-list at durhaminc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: INC NEWS - Fw: [whhna-list] Dog poop/Waste collection rules


> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 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
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Forwarded email posting from sender with permission.
>>>
>>> Please feel free to pass this along to your neighborhood listservs.
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- 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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