fishfood Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Does anyone know the answer to this? because in my opinion this has to be the most stupid idea I've ever come accross, no other animal has to poop scoop (cats don't and they are pets) and birds, they plop where they like. But a dog has to have its poo placed into a plastic bag and put in the bin, surely this has to be the most stupid idea every from an environmental point of view? The dog poops and the poo decomposes in about 7 days, however the plastic bag takes about 1000 years to decompose. So in effect if a dog had pooped in Encliffe Park in 1066, King Harold took his dog for a walk before the battle of Hastings and the dog pooped near a bush. The plastic bag would still have another 42 years to decompose and think about the amount of dogs theres been since that time 1345, year 1477, year 1699 etc.... Do you think this madness of pooper scooping will end ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muckymurphy Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 most dog owners who scoop their poop, invariably drop the bag further along their walk. when i come back in the next life, i will let you know via a medium how all those discarded bags are getting on. however, if you collect the poop in a tesco biodegradable carrier, you will be rewarded with a dramatic change in a couple of years or so. i put thousands of electronic components into hundreds of small snaapy type bags which i then put into a tesco carrier and put in the spare room. a couple of years later i went to get something, and on lifting the tesco bag up, it disintegrated into a thousand flakes leaving me to separate my little bags of components from the debris. not funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Just use biodegradeable bags, it's not computational fluid dynamics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishfood Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 But why bother, it never used to be a problem Other animals are not expected to pooper scoop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 People who pick up their dogs poo, put it in a bag, then drop it somewhere should be charged under transportation of hazardous waste legislation. At least without it's protective bag it will wash away in a day or so, especially with the weather at the moment, but in a bag it sits festering for ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medusa Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 By law all dog waste needs to go for incineration, so whether the bag biodegrades is neither here nor there unless you're composting them yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishfood Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 By law, who is breaking the law? Surely its the dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perplexed Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Picking up dog excrement comes with the deal of owning a dog. One should be prepared to do the former if one elects to do the latter. If not, then don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cid Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 By law all dog waste needs to go for incineration, so whether the bag biodegrades is neither here nor there unless you're composting them yourself. Is this an old law? So a person would be breaking the law to put their bags anywhere else, apart from the poop-bin. Why not change the law and have combined litter/poop-bins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 most dog owners who scoop their poop, invariably drop the bag further along their walk. when i come back in the next life, i will let you know via a medium how all those discarded bags are getting on. however, if you collect the poop in a tesco biodegradable carrier, you will be rewarded with a dramatic change in a couple of years or so. i put thousands of electronic components into hundreds of small snaapy type bags which i then put into a tesco carrier and put in the spare room. a couple of years later i went to get something, and on lifting the tesco bag up, it disintegrated into a thousand flakes leaving me to separate my little bags of components from the debris. not funny! Most dog owners? Where do you get this information from? In my experience most dog owners dispose of dog poop responsibly by putting it in a bin or taking it home to dispose of. I'm not aware of little plastic bags of dog poop left lying around in the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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