Daily dog feces disposal
Method one, plastic bag method
1. When you are ready to take enough to go out, with injuries on your body several plastic bags of preservation, in order to prevent the plastic bags have holes, it is best to set 2 plastic bags at a time, so as to prevent dog poop to get on their hands.
2. open the bag, put it in the bag, check the bag has no perforations.
3. Grab the bottom of the bag with your fingers and hold the poop through the bag before picking it up and stuffing it into the bag.
4. Hold onto the poop and turn the plastic bag over with your other hand, remembering not to get the poop on your hand.
5. Tie the bag in a dead end so the poop doesn’t get out. Take it to the nearest trash can. You can also take it home and flush it down the toilet in.
Method 2: Clean up with a shovel
1. Carry a small shovel with you so that you can avoid the disgusting feeling of picking it up directly by hand and accidentally touching the dog poop.
2. When your dog poops, use the shovel to scoop up the dog poop and put it in a bag, then throw it in the trash.
Method 3: Clean up with newspaper
1. Carry a few sheets of newspaper with you. But before you do that, you’d better train your dog to be able to spot poo on the newspaper.
2. When you see your dog ready to poop, put a newspaper underneath.
3. When your dog is done, wrap the poop in newspaper, put it in a bag and throw it in a nearby trash can.
Foreign dog poop disposal methods
CBC reporter Jackie Sharkey reports that in the first phase of the pilot program, three parks in Waterloo will have such storage wells. Each storage well will have a capacity of half a cubic meter and will be emptied every two weeks. The dog poop will be transported to a treatment center outside the city, where it will be anaerobically digested and converted into biogas that can be used for heating and electricity generation.
Bill Higgins, head of the storage well manufacturer’s business development department, said the wells will be buried in the city. Higgins said the wells are buried two meters underground to maintain relatively low temperatures and to avoid letting odors escape. Of the three storage wells, the one in Bechtel Park will likely need to be emptied once a week. Because the park has a playground that allows dogs to be unleashed, the “harvest” is bound to be greater.
Higgins said dog poop contains more pathogens than human waste and livestock waste, so it can’t be disposed of like other organic waste. The company that will work with the city of Waterloo is located in nearby Elmira and has a very advanced biodegradation facility.
Dog poop will be mixed with other organic wastes and livestock manure, then heated, stirred and fermented in an anaerobic environment for 30 to 90 days. The resulting biogas is used to generate electricity after a process that includes cooling and cleaning. The fermentation residue will be used as fertilizer for a two-for-one effect!
Higgins says that three storage wells, each half a cubic meter, collected every half month, could power 26 homes per storage well if these figures are taken into account. But that’s a projection on paper, because right now no one knows if the dogs’ contributions will fill the vacuum trucks that come to deliver the “goods” every time.
Dog poop is a headache for all park authorities and municipal health departments. The city of Waterloo has a population of 100,000. According to Mayor Jaworski, who spoke to CBC host Jim Brown, a rough estimate of 60 tons of dog poop per year is removed from the dumpsters of three parks alone. For his part, Higgins said dog poop contains a lot of parasites, viruses and bacteria. These little beings can survive long after the dog poop is washed away by rain.
The technology to turn dog poop into energy is not complicated, in fact, rural areas with large amounts of livestock waste, as well as “dog poop disaster” more serious Berlin, San Francisco and other large cities have been doing so. But to Jaworski’s knowledge, in Canada’s cities, Waterloo is still the first.
Sorting dog poop to take home and flush
These days, with the gradual increase in the number of “real” neighborhoods for garbage classification, there are more questions among residents about what kind of items are what kind of garbage, especially dog poop, hair, animal carcasses and other types of “remote” garbage, which type of garbage belongs to The people have different opinions, and there are more debates on the Internet. The authoritative answer from the sanitation department is that dog poop does not belong to any of the categories of dry, wet, recyclable or hazardous waste, so people are asked to pour it down the toilet at home and flush it out.
Garbage classification popularization chapter
Recyclables.
Waste plastic: beverage bottles, shampoo bottles, cooking oil barrels, plastic bowls (pots), plastic toys
Waste paper: cardboard boxes, newspapers, envelopes, printing paper, advertising slips, etc.
Waste glass: wine bottles, window glass, medicine bottles, soy sauce bottles, seasoning bottles, etc.
Scrap metal: cans, metal components, milk powder barrels, etc. (copper, iron, aluminum, etc.)
Waste clothing: clothes, bed sheets, quilts, shoes, towels, plush toys, etc.
Electronic waste: video machines, washing machines, air-conditioners, refrigerators, computers, cameras, cell phones, chargers, children’s electric toys, remote controls, digital music players, USB sticks, etc.
Hazardous waste.
Waste batteries: (containing mercury, NiMH, NiCd batteries, etc.) Waste rechargeable batteries, waste button batteries, waste storage batteries
Waste fluorescent tubes: mercury-containing fluorescent tubes, energy-saving lamps
Others: mercury thermometers, expired drugs, paint buckets, pesticide cans, X-ray films and other photographic films, waste CDs
Wet garbage.
Grain and its products: rice, noodles, beans and other grains and their processed foods
Vegetables and fruits: melons, leafy greens, root vegetables, mushrooms and other vegetables, as well as the pulp and peel of various fruits
Meat and eggs: chicken, duck, pig, beef, lamb, eggs and processed meat and egg products
Aquatic products: fish, shrimp, shellfish (hard shells must be removed and incorporated into dry garbage) and their processed foods
Canned food: the contents of canned food, such as: luncheon meat, etc.
Seasonings: sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, starch, hot sauce and other types of sauces
Snacks: cakes, candies, nuts, cheese
Dried food: air-dried and dried food, such as: dried mushrooms, red dates, dried cinnamon, etc.
Brewed beverages: instant drink powder, tea bags, tea dregs, Chinese medicine dregs
Potted plants: flowers, branches and leaves
Others: all kinds of expired food, food residues and pet feed
(The physical objects listed in the wet garbage include both unconsumed and post-consumption residues)
