Hi,
We are looking to try and find an environmentaly friendly way of getting rid of our dog poo that is collected from the garden. Poo bags aren't ever going to break down and we were hoping for some ideas. its the one thing we have never really known what the right thing to do is. Do you put it out for binmen???Do you use doggy toilets??? When i had pups i rang the council and they said it was fine to take all the soiled paper etc to the tip. Our local tip has now started checking bags and i dont fancy showing them bags of dog poo even though the council said it was ok. Any ideas???? i have heard about a dog poo wormery??????????? Any clue about this????Im guessing its some kind of compost bin with worms.
mel.

I take mine to the local dog bin though not nice, while looking to buy some worms for the compost bin i did notice some thing about composting the pooo?

try this link   http://www.wormsdirectuk.co.uk/default.php?cPath=21_63   

We take our to the local poo bin, I guess it depends on how much you have.
If you show the people at the tip bags of poo p'raps they won't ask to look again!!:-D

I pick all mine up in nappy bags  or into carrier bags and put it in the household waste wheelie bin that goes to the tip (then have a lovely man come round once every 5 weeks to clean the bin out LOL)
All that happens to the pooh in the council pooh bins it is chucked in the tip anyway.
Dont use dog pooh bins that compost as I havent heard anyone that has found they dont fill up and full after a week.
Dont know about the wormery though :)
in an old house I used to lift the drain cover and scrape it all down the drain, but aparently you are not meant to do that :o :o :o so havnt since!!!
Lea :)

We are advised by our council to put it in plastic bags and put it in the wheelie bin with the household rubbish, advised not to compost it.

You can get biodegradable poo bags made of corn starch.  I use nappy sacks, and really I think that they should all  be made biodegradable.

This is the advantage of living in a rural area and having to have your own septic tank -we tip our dog poo down there. Just means it has to be emptied once a year instead of every 2-3 years. :)

I do as Lea and Brainless have already said, Nappy Bags and put it out for the nice friendly Binmen. :-)

Nappy bags here too, but I only buy biodegradable ones now. Haven't seen them in the supermarket, suprisingly, but I just order a good few at a time.

Most of the Crown/Forestry Commission land round here now encourages you not to bag if it's not on or near footpaths, although I have always feel guilty and carried on for ages, but if it's really well out of the way now I will leave it.

M.

Biodegradable poo bags and chuck 'em in the bin.  Bin then gets cleaned once a month.  Although my dogs rarely poo in the garden so it usually goes in public bins (but always in the biodegradable bags).

If I am out and about in the country side, I do admit to using a nappy bag to pick it up and throw it under the nearest shrub or on the side of a dyke!!! And then putting the soiled empty nappy bag back in my bum bag to dispose of later!!!
Lea :)

When in the country I leave it under the hedgerows to biodegrade naturally. Mixed with fox, rabbit and any other droppings it will add compost into the moorland without adding harmful plastic bags to landfill sites. At home I take it to the nearest dog waste bin in a poo bag.
Deb :-)

I do as red Deb on our country walks and at home in the wheelie, both in biodegradable bags.

> If you show the people at the tip bags of poo p'raps they won't ask to look again!!:-D

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!

Thank you all for the suggestions. Ill be getting some of the bio degradeable bags and continuing with the tip and the binmen i think. The wormery looks a good idea but with 2 young children its finding a spot for it where they wouldn't be able to get near it! Dont fancy stinky dog poo worms being bought in for dinner!!!!LOL!
mel.

Into carrier bags and out to the binmen

Thank goodness you said you take the bag away to dispose of. For a moment i thought you were one of those weird people who put the poo into a plastic bag and then leave it to look unsightly for months, far worse than just leaving the poo in my opinion, at least that washes away when it has rained a few times.
I, too, think it is ok to leave poo under the hedge or off the path somewhere. I am lucky in that my dog always likes to go into undergrowth to poo when he can, so if we are out in the country i leave it. I  pick it up in a plastic bag and take it home or to the nearest dog bin if he poops in the park or in the street or on a footpath.

My dog is litter trained so we have biodegradable litter and paper and we also use biodegradable plastic bags for both walks and tying up the litter.

Any accidents she had as a puppy were flushed, however.

I always put it down the sewer and flush it away.

I must be honest i use nappy sacks then put it in a little black bin behind the shed then when the bin men are due i put it in the house hold waste bags,

We also use cheap nappy sacks and we use a separate small bin, we gather it and then put it in our wheelie bin the night before they come to empty it

I flush mine down the loo as I have a septic tank.Have put it out for the bin men to take away on occasion using poo bags or nappy sacks.I do sometimes take a few extra bags from the supermarket when I buy my fruit and veggies or recycle what plastic bags I have already.What I really really hate are people who go to the effort of picking up their dogs poo and tying the bag to trees,bushes,fences,gates etc.Yuk.

Nappy sacks or plastic carrier bags (guilty face) .. Then the wheelie bin.
Ours gets washed by a nice man every two weeks :)
If we're out they tend to always try and get under the nearest hedge
anyway, and I will leave it, providing it's not likely to be trod on by anyone :-D

I bought some biodegrable bags from PAH after a pang of guilt at using carrier
bags for a week .. I couldn't open them up for love nor money .. Far less trying
to hold a Dane on one lead, a Goldie on another and pick up the poo ... :-D

Hi,
I also do as Brainless. collect it is nappy sacks or carriers "recycle" I have a distbin with a black bag in it, put it in there
then out for the bin men, all nicely bagged up.

Biodegradable poo bags (£1 shop has them now)then into a bin in the garden then on bin day into the BIG BIN!!!
One Job My Hubby refuses to do is empty garden poo bin into BIG BIN...on very Rare occasion he has done he puts a Teatowel over his mouth/chin...like Zorro for a 2minute spill job!!!! it STINKS HE SAYS!!!

We flush most of ours although i'm not sure if we are meant to??

I do the same as tessisbest.

I am lucky to have a loo just inside the back door, I call it the dog loo and occassionally we let humans use it.

We once hired a holiday cottage and they had a metal cover in the garden with a hook on top - you hooked this off and below was what I assume was a waste pipe and they had a long handled poop scoop so you could  pick up after your dog and just put it straight in - seemed like a fantastic idea. 

Hope it wasnt connected to the mains water supply!!

There are some flushable , dissolvable poo bags advertised in April's YD .They are at flushiespoopbags.com ( no i'm not advertising or connected in any way )
I assume you would have to remove all of the air so that they don't float !
I thought i had read a previous thread which said that you shouldn't flush dog poo ? 

Anyhow , has anyone tried them ?

>Hope it wasnt connected to the mains water supply!!

I tried to flush my dog's poo before but it kept floating back to the surface each time after the flush had finished. Not sure if it was something to do with being raw fed / bone content. Needless to say, I had to fish it back out

Here are more normal degradeable poo bags, compare well with the degrdeable nappy sacks http://www.dgrade.co.uk/?gclid=CIzd2Z38qpICFRZPMAodlBDVHw

You can flush dog poo :) I don't as I'm worried the big 'jobs' may cause a blockage :( I bag & bin.

Heres a link to envirinmentaly-friendly disposal of dog poo - the last tip is funny, I can't see many of us weeing on dog poo to speed up the decomposition process!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A11998461

Good tips. Especailly like the Don't add poo to the worm farm for a few days after any sort of medication, especially worming tablets.
lol...for obvious reasons!!!!!

The dgrade ones seem expensive, don't they? This is where I tend to buy from, and unless I'm reading it wrong they're much cheaper. They are opaque, and seem very strong.

M.

Seem to be cheaper on the smaller quantities.

"If you show the people at the tip bags of poo p'raps they won't ask to look again!! "

I once took a sack to the tip, and the chap never even looked - he just stuck his hand straight in!!!  You could probably hear him scream "It's full of dog s***" throughout the South Yorkshire area.

Bet he didn't do that again.

If you show the people at the tip bags of poo p'raps they won't ask to look again!! "

I once took a sack to the tip, and the chap never even looked - he just stuck his hand straight in!!!  You could probably hear him scream "It's full of dog s***" throughout the South Yorkshire area.

Ha ha ha ha....i can so imagine!!!!

I actually found a new site kicking around that deals with biodegradable dog poo bags, the link to the site is  Hope this helps.[url]http://www.poobagsdirect.co.uk [/url]

We have 3 large breed dogs so plenty of poo!I am lucky to have a manhole cover in the yard where they drop,we lift the cover,shovel it down and put buckets of water down to flush.Out on walks we use the council poo bags and bin,though we'd like to use degradable nappy bags,they can't cope with the huge piles we get!

I think I must be the only person who's council do not accept poo at the tip, who do not accept it in the bin men collection and who will not collect it for household waste.  They just tell us to find those tiny 'dog poo' bins which are never big enough. 

Hi Mel, I have to confess I dont usually collect from our garden as its a big garden and we dont have kids or anything so I leave it for nature...but we have a pup who sometimes poos in the house and I just flush it down our loo! Maybe not the best idea though if you're wanting to dispose of poo collected from the garden. Do you have an outside loo or anything? I put poo collected on walks in our wheelie bin, if there are no poo bins to hand.

Haven't heard of a dog poo wormery but sounds intriguing?!?!

we are not allowed to flush dog poo down our toilet we have to put it out for the bin man to take to the tip. 

How on earth can they tell if you do?

I was going to say the same thing JG..
Luckily our council haven't taken an issue with us putting many poo bags into our bins, if they did then i would scoop the hardened ones over the hedge into the field(not sure why i don't do that now) and the soggier ones would be flushed down the toilet.

our council have rangers that go around and give people from time to time free poo bags on our dog walks which we can put in the dog waste bins. other to that i buy the nappy bags from the supermarket and the likes and put in the dog waste bins either on our walks or use the nappy bags at home when they actually do do something in the garden and put in our wheelei bin

I have just been told off from someone at our local lakes. I had collected the dog poo from the past week and took it all to the dog poo bin at our local lake. There just happened to be an employee of the Wildlife trust there seeing me do it. She had a go at me for disposing of it there as the local council charge them for emptying the bins and I wasnt allowed to empty it there. I pay my council tax just like everyone else and i told her that. I've only had the dog a few weeks and i just thought that rather than throwing in the refuse, it would be better to dispose in the dog bins at local public parks etc. Has anyone else had any problems?

I agree with your Wildlife officer, Dog Poo bins are for the convenience of walkers in the vicinity and there is nothing worse than seeing them overflowing, with filled bags left over the ground (either due to irregular emptying OR from people bringing the waste from home).

There is no reason not to use your own bin (double bag and deodorise if it bothers you) as dog waste from Poo bins goes to the same facility as your unrecycled refuse from home.  However, there are much higher charges for Dog Bins as they aren't collected by your usual bin men.  They also have to be purchased and sited with signage, all costly, and these charges are often passed on to local Parish Councils, or as in your case a Trust.

I did some research on dogs bins last year and you might find these documents from North Somerset of interest :)

Mine get bagged and placed in the refuse at home (Not many) and bagged and placed in poo bins while out. Never had a problem. On occasion I have walked where there are no bins and then double bag and take home to the bin.
Aileen

We have a notice on my nearest council poo bin that the bin is for dog walkers use, because obviously someone thought they could just put all their poo in it, and it was getting full faster than they could empty it. 

I am surprised anyone would think different!!!

We are supposed to put our double bagged dog and cat poo in the black bin for landfill.  Rabbit and guinea pig etc litter is supposed to go in the green bin if you have one (our council charges for green bins, so you pay for one or compost).