Comments on: How can I “recycle” dog poop?

By: Peter3DOGS Mulshine

Peter3DOGS Mulshine — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:32:09 +0000

i WAS WONDERING ABOUT USING A BIG PLASTIC TANK W/A REMOVABLE COVER TO HEAT IT SUN & DECOMPOSE IT IN A SLOW MOVING FAN COULD SUCK THE GASES INTO A STANDUP WATER HEATER W. A LIT PILOT &THEN ANY METHANE PRODUCED WOULD BURN UP & HEAT THE WATER.???? I COULD JUST MAKE SURE THAT THE PATH THE GAS WENT THROUGH WAS COMPLETELY VENTED TO THE OUTSIDE???

By: Olia

Olia — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:24:14 +0000

Use it to grow rain worms. They will improve your garden soil.

By: Olia

Olia — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:21:27 +0000

You can can it, label ” Piece of shit” and send as a gift to someone you don’t like.

By: fallsch

fallsch — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:47:59 +0000

I burn mine. I have 8 large dogs at any give time. I have bins set up in the sun that I put holes in with bug screens over the holes. Leave those in the sun for a couple of months and it dries out. Then I make a fire pit and start as small fire in it and slowly start to add the dried dog dung. It burns and becomes coals to add to the heat of the fire. As a test I fenced off a small area of the yard that the dogs had torn up. I spread the ashes around this area and tilled it into the soil and put grass seed onto it. It seems to be growing well.

The questions I’d have would be 1. would that the fire would indeed destroy those pathogens and 2. would it still make a decent fertilizer and if so would it be safe for human consumption plants?

By: julie

julie — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:31:40 +0000

hi there if you still want some dog poo i have planty i have a newfoundland hes like a horse so you can see why i have alot of poo
where in the uk are you/.?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:28:39 +0000

Have you tried Flush Doggy flushable dog poop bags before? It’s so easy to use and no more stinky garbage.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:17:41 +0000

Personally,. I use the bag and bio-degradable bags from http://www.dickybag.com. Then, I just put the dog waste (and bag) straight into my compost heap at home after my walk.

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:41:07 +0000

Use an old dustbin with some vegatable matter in it and empty your dog poo directly in. deposit common garden slugs inside the bin and they will consume it leaving a compost like bye product

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:43:25 +0000

Shaun you would be more than welcome to my dogs poo. If you are seriously interested please get in touch – home@rmcalinden13.orangehome.co.uk

By: shaun

shaun — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:19:48 +0000

hi i would love to have you dogs poo
if you live in uk
i can ues it

By: mangobaby

mangobaby — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:12:25 +0000

People in India, use cowpats (flattened piles of cow dung) for fuel. Maybe you can look into a new kind of fuel – “doggy diesel”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung

mind you, dogs don’t eat as much grass as cattle but it might be worth researching.

By: Elouise

Elouise — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:51:02 +0000

If you have a garden, you can dig a biggish hole (20 x 20 cm), drop in the dog poop and shovel some sand over it, to stop it from stinking. We did that for years in our garden. Each time the hole is full, you move to another spot and dig the next one, thereby fertilising the soil of the whole garden over time. It makes excellent fertiliser, as far as I can tell.

By: vivian

vivian — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:33:48 +0000

I just use flushable dog poop bags and flush poop down the toilet. Easiest and most eco-friendly way to deal with dog poop. Flushable Dog Poop Bags

By: Ian Hopper

Ian Hopper — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:42:05 +0000

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.

By: Alison Bailey Smith

Alison Bailey Smith — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:07:22 +0000

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.

By: Kacy

Kacy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:47:07 +0000

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.

By: Clare

Clare — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:46:54 +0000

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/

By: Estrella Zurullo

Estrella Zurullo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:54:42 +0000

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.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:23:21 +0000

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!

By: Karmae

Karmae — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:29:07 +0000

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!

By: Delusion

Delusion — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:24:45 +0000

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.