I have two dogs who poo in the garden when I have picked it up what do I do with it?

Our local council says that it can be put in the black bin (non recyclables) but must be double wrapped. So its picked up using a poo bag and put into an old dog food sack and dumped in the bin on collection day.

'fraid it's down the toilet with mine, but their poos aren't very big ;-)

If on a walk, it goes in the dog bin, no matter how far we have to carry it ;-)

double bag and the dustbin here

Mine goes in a carrier bag and every 2-3 days that goes in the bin.  Never been told to double wrap it even when I had environmental health round (neighbours trying to cause trouble).

Thanks everyone! :-)

When we are out, we pick up and deposit in one of the red bins around the area.   In our own back garden, the pooh is picked up and put into a bin which has double bags in it - when it gets full enough (not full, but enough to be tied up and bought out), I take it to the nearest red bin and make a deposit.    I don't think I'd want to inflict this on my bin men to be honest.   Bassets make big pooh!!

All the bags go out the front into an old flower pot, then into a separate carrier bag in the bin when it's rubbish day.

Our council's advice here is to either flush it down the toilet or double bag and bin it.
We are lucky in that we have a second outside toilet so we just shovel it up and flush it. There is also a council bin at the end of our road so if the toilet did ever break I could bin the poop in there.

We either put small bags in the wheelie bin, or fill up sacks and take to the local tip. We can't flush it down the toilet as the septic tank would then need emptying at least a couple of times a year. (Tried it and it ended up far too expensive.)

Thanks.

We have been lucky in both our most recent properties we have had a drain cover inthe back garden so it goes with the human toilet waste...best place :). Obviously, on walks it goes in any public bin, which some dont realise is alright to do. :)

I pick ours up in the garden and put the bags into a flower pot a then the night before the bin men come we empty the pot into the bin. I haven't been told to double bag it, so might do some research on that! :)

Has anyone tried one of those "dog toilets" that you dig and put into the ground?

I chuck it over into the neighbours garden ;-)

(Considering my neighbours 6 cats use my garden as a litterbox I should be doing that too!! Haha)

If mine poo on the grass I scoop it up, chuck it down the drain and flush it with the hose. If they go on the gravel I use Tesco biodegradable scented nappy sacks which then get put in an old dog food sack and into the black wheelie bin.

In the last house I tried the doggy toilet in the ground, maybe ok for a chihuahua but useless otherwise.

Double lined lidded bucket fill, then bin it. 

In fact that is the councils instruction re domestic dog and cat waste, to double bag it and put in land fill household waste wheelie bin.

Small animal waste and bedding should be composted or put in the green bin.

>I take it to the nearest red bin and make a deposit.

Those bins are meant for the deposit of dog poo done by dogs on walks, not for people to use to dispose fo dog poo.

Where I live this was becoming an issue and there are notices on the bins to this effect.

> Has anyone tried one of those "dog toilets" that you dig and put into the ground?

Yes, A long time ago but we had far too many dogs..I thinks it's aimed at single dog owners..so it didnt really work.

Brainless I also dispose of dog poo in these red bins as instructed to do by my local council!

me too. There is a bin at the end of my road so I put bags in there. I do put in the household rubbish bin when it is only a couple of days to collection but as they now only collect the household rubbish here every fortnight I do  not want smelly dog poo hanging around in it for two weeks

We have been told now in our area that if you are found depositing poo from your home in the public poo bins it is an offence of fly tipping and you will be fined.
I use them while I am out but home produced poo is double bagged and placed in the black bin, as per council guidelines.
Aileen

I have no problem with this as if even a small % of local owners put bags of poo collected at home in the red public bins they would very quickly overfill. With an average of 5/10 homes owning a dog that's a lot of poo.....

You're all very lucky -here there is no such thing as dog poo bins within miles, so even on walks I have to take it home!

Red bin when out for a walk & take with me what little is done in the garden, illegal (can't find anything on our council web site so will enquire tomorrow) but my preferred way of disposing of it.

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As only have the two, might try the above & flush down our toilet.

 

We have a few red dog bins around here and at one point there is even a black bin for "normal" rubbish.  I regularly watch the man coming round and removing the plastic sacks/bags from the bins and he ALWAYS puts both red and black into ONE bag (Uttlesford DC)!  I thought the whole idea of separate bins was for separate end disposal?

> We have a few red dog bins around here and at one point there is even a black bin for "normal" rubbish.  I regularly watch the man coming round and removing the plastic sacks/bags from the bins and he ALWAYS puts both red and black into ONE bag (Uttlesford DC)!  I thought the whole idea of separate bins was for separate end disposal?

You are allowed to use any public bin whatever it's colour, as long as it's(the waste) in a bag..which no one would put it straight in a bin without bagging it first...

Yep it all goes in the landfill in the end so now our local council (I border two) has waste bins marked litter and dog waste, and don't have special poo bins. 

The neighbouring council still ahs poo bins with the warning notices on..

As I have one just out the front of my house and I seem to be the only person that makes a deposit I think it is mine ! But I also have a back gate that opens straight on to fields so it is only the odd one that goes in the poo bin

>In the last house I tried the doggy toilet in the ground, maybe ok for a chihuahua but useless otherwise

Doesn't work for 16 Chihuahuas.

> I thought the whole idea of separate bins was for separate end disposal?

No I think the idea of Poo bins is to give people the idea that they should be picking up after their dogs.

Those bins are meant for the deposit of dog poo done by dogs on walks, not for people to use to dispose fo dog poo.


LOL - do you think I take anything that wouldn't be approx. the same amount as maybe half a dozen poohs done on walks.   Don't be daft.   Dog pooh is dog pooh regardless of where it's done and frankly far better to put it in a bin for the purpose than to inflict this on regular bin men - in my view.

No I think the idea of Poo bins is to give people the idea that they should be picking up after their dogs.
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That's one way of looking at it - but for me pooh bins are there to enable people not to have to walk home carrying what their dog might have done on a walk.   Certainly this area is plastered with red bins, and yet we still have a huge dog mess problem.   So clearly that idea (giving people the idea they should be picking up after their dogs) isn't working!!!

I do put in the household rubbish bin when it is only a couple of days to collection but as they now only collect the household rubbish here every fortnight I do  not want smelly dog poo hanging around in it for two weeks

Relevant!!

How often do you think they empty the poo bins? 

It is all done by bin men, and put in same place as your household waste. 

I'd think it far more unpleasant to empty the poo bins full of poo than to wheel the wheelie bin to the truck where it gets tipped by the machinery.  Even for those who still have old fashioned bins a mixed load of rubbish is going to be less unpleasant.

The problem is that poo bins around here are always overflowing, (complete eye sore and more likely for animals to then drag the overflow around) so either dog walkers are very conscientious, or people are using them to dump poo in from their gardens, not on in my book.

It would be the same as me taking my excess household rubbish and stuffing it in the public waste bins (which I also see around here with carriers stuffed in them so you can't access them for any litter.

>It would be the same as me taking my excess household rubbish and stuffing it in the public waste bins

Our council says that as they own all the bins - the ones in the street and all the wheelie bins - it doesn't matter which bin you use. You're allowed to put your rubbish in anybody's wheelie bin, for example.

>You're allowed to put your rubbish in anybody's wheelie bin, for example.

I have been told that I am allowed to put poo bags into wheelie bins as long as I don't trespass, because as you say they belong to the council.

I wonder what they will do about it though when they start fining people for putting the wrong things in bins, after all there is no way to say whom put things in them???

I know the neighbouring council will not empty the green bins if non compostable items have been put in them.  bit hard on the householder if someone has put rubbish in their bin.

Ur lucky you get wheelie bins. We're not allowed them where I am, and we can only put out 4 black bags at a time every other week. Food bins every week and recyclable bags on the aultanitive weeks to the blacks.

With 6 dogs it's regular poo patrol in our garden, first one being at 6.30am whilst still in my dressing gown.
Once bagged they hang on a hook on the garden fence till hubby comes down and does the next check around mid-day.
Next lot done early evening just to check for the ones that were missed on earlier patrols.
Any done on dog walks go in the red bins and those hanging on the 'poo hook' go in the wheelie bin at the end of the day.

Poo tidy poo happy!

How often do you think they empty the poo bins?

It is all done by bin men, and put in same place as your household waste.

I'd think it far more unpleasant to empty the poo bins full of poo than to wheel the wheelie bin to the truck where it gets tipped by the machinery.  Even for those who still have old fashioned bins a mixed load of rubbish is going to be less unpleasant.

I don't THINK, I know our pooh bins are emptied at the very least, every week.   And the pooh bins are emptied by a different company to those who come round and do our weekly black bag pick up - we don't have wheelie bins for our normal household refuse.  And the bin men have to pull black bags out of our black bin.   The pooh bins are NEVER overflowing around here - and I do use one of the bigger bins btw.  The contents of the red bin do probably go to the same refuse centre however.   On that we can agree.

Why is this turning into a federal case - I answered the original question about how I dispose of our dog waste!!