There is such a product as a “Green Toilet” It is a special designed, open bottled pot that is sunk partly into the ground. Animal waste is then added to it and the “Toilet” comes with some special accelerator that covers the waste and breaks it down into the ground.

Its recommended that every few months you move it around so its not always in the same place. Even with the green toilet it is advisable to keep it away from children play areas and edible plants.

These toilets can be found at some Home improvement stores such as focus / B&Q. I believe the concept works similiarly to the Bokashi system.

My mom had this theory - never tie the plastic bags with the poo in it. This way they will get air and the poo will break down and not be left sealed up in the baggies. This is what I’ve been doing as well. For a while I used to bring it home and flush it and rinse and reuse the baggies.But that got to be just too icky. Biodegradable bags are hard to find. The bettter dog food makes for more smaller poos. The worst are the diet foods - extra filler and fibre!

What a delightful subject…

try a green cone if you have a garden. http://www.greencone.com/how_it_works.asp?prid=10
I haven’t tried it but it looks good and good for composting other waste too!

Take the poo and spread it on your carpark. If you spread it thin enough on a sunny day, it will dry up and blow away in a matter of hours. I learned to do this with my own poo when I was backpacking through Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States.

There used to be people who would pay good money for dog poo (or ‘pure’) to used in the tanning industry:
http://www.birminghampost.net/comment/birmingham-columnists/chris-upton/2008/08/14/the-pure-hell-of-mucking-about-with-historic-leather-65233-21532550/

Bio Bag makes a good biodegradable dog poo bag. They come in a pack of 50 for around $5.00(US). You can find them at drugstore.com or greenfeet.com. I don’t have a dog, but I use them for picking up small trash or collecting organic waste for compost.

When I lived in Guelph in Canada, they had a “Wet” and “Dry” system which was kind of self-explanatory so pet-poo would go in the wet along with food waste & garden waste. Dry was everything else but was clean. They managed to reycyle or reuse or capture power from 60% of the household waste.

Another option is building a solar toilet specifically for the dog poop. Solar toilets use the power of the sun to burn up human/pet waste and make it safe to compost, at least for non food sources. http://www.longbrancheec.org/pubs/composting_toilet.html is one reference.

Personally, I was thinking of building something like this: http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/solarpreheatoil/ but smaller for a single 5g bucket, painted black of course. You’d need an exhaust chimney as well, painted black too and also a vent on the front to help evaporate the poop.