The Zoning Commission approved plans for a law enforcement dog training facility and kennel in a Naugatuck, Connecticut industrial park.
The facility will hold up to a maximum of 300 dogs, and the dogs’ waste will be composted on site.
The commission approved the application with the condition that Black Rock Canines submits a map detailing the location of the proposed compost site and a detailed compost plan.
Red garbage dog waste recycling bins have become more common in municipalities across the British Columbia Lower Mainland in recent years, diverting tons of waste from landfills. But North Vancouver’s is arguably the catchiest approach, with its own dog-waste diversion social media hashtag — #GotPoop — as well as signage and a web page for what the municipality calls “the Poo Fairy.”
The city recently tweeted about a new online tool to find one of the roughly 30 bright red bins they’ve dropped in locations across the North Shore municipality. In a tweet that included the city’s own social media hashtag dedicated to the topic, it said the map could be used on residents’ phones to find where to stash their bagged doo.
If they can do it, why not US? City of Cockburn Waste Education officer Nicki Ledger said new compostable bags that will be installed at city parks will be less damaging to the environment as they were likely to break down quickly if they ended up in local waterways, not crumble into tiny pieces of plastic like the ‘degradable’ or ‘biodegradable’ bags.
Miss Ledger said the bags were certified compostable meaning they break down completely in the industrial composters at the Regional Resource Recovery Centre in Canning Vale. “They’re also compostable to AS5810 for home composting systems so they will break down in backyard composters,” she said.
Update: “We no longer use the Regional Resource Recovery Centre in Canning Vale since we are no longer part of the South Metro Regional Council. All general waste bins are taken to the Henderson landfill site. In 2023 this waste will be sent to a waste to energy plant.” Clare Courtauld, Waste Education Coordinator | Waste Services, City of Cockburn
As part of her capstone project, Colorado Mountain College sustainability studies senior Ramsey Bond teamed up with the Colorado Animal Rescue shelter (CARE) in Spring Valley to build an outdoor animal waste composting system. The three-bin composter – built using wooden pallets – is converting a mixture of the shelter’s animal waste and a local woodworker’s sawdust into composted soil that’s safe for lawns, shrubbery and flower gardens.
Photo caption: Ramsey Bond explains the new animal waste composter to Wes Boyd. Bond was able to incorporate the composter into her own studies and to those of her sustainability classmates. Photo ©Hannah Johnson (CMC professional photography student)
Article provided by Debbie Crawford, Colorado Mountain College public information officer, Central Services
Airdrie, a city of just over 61,500 north of Calgary, Alberta, has announced that residents can now put pet waste in their green organics carts.
“When we introduced [the organics program] in 2014, this was basically something residents wanted from the get-go,” said Susan Grimm, Team Leader for Waste and Recycling.
“So, in our recent contract, we negotiated to make sure that the new processor will have pet waste on the accepted materials list.” This is a further sign of the continued push globally towards a society that can really focus on their recycling efforts and contribute to a society that is environmentally conscious. Businesses are also finding their own impetus too, although recycling in the workplace can be a real challenge when you are limited for space. So using a cardboard baler from PHS Wastekit is going to be a useful alternative.
On Thurs., March 29, 2018 the City of Airdrie posted the announcement to their Facebook page, and it was met with much excitement and gratitude from citizens.
Cat owners served by Valley Waste Resource Management (VWRM) in Nova Scotia now have the option of putting used kitty litter in the green compost bin. They’ve been composting kitty litter in Colchester County for approximately a decade and Pictou County began doing so last year,” said VWRM communications manager Andrew Garrett.
Landfills are very expensive, use a lot of space and “they never go away.” Taking kitty litter out of landfills moves the material up on the so-called “waste hierarchy,” turning it into a resource as compost as opposed to a disposal item.
“…when it came to meat bones, shells from seafood, cat and dog poop or just those chicken breasts I never got around to cooking and are starting to grow hair in the fridge, backyard composting has its limits,” writes Licia Corbella in today’s Calgary Herald. “So, imagine my delight when I was granted a special tour of Calgary’s Green Cart Composting Facility in Calgary’s deep southeast near the Shepard Landfill.”
Since the beginning of October, when the citywide residential program was fully engaged, Calgary has seen a 50 per cent reduction in the amount of waste picked up in the black carts, which is transported to the landfill.
Tour Calgary’s Green Cart Composting Facility with Licia.
Photo: Philippa Wagner, green cart project manager
A select group of residents in the City of Melville, in Perth’s southern suburbs, will soon be able to throw meat, dairy products, coffee grounds, dog poo and kitty litter into their green waste bins. All organic waste from their homes will be accepted into green-lidded bins, which ordinarily only take garden waste like leaves, lawn clippings and small branches.
“It’s going to contain all the organics generated in the household,” Steve Wacher, manager of resource recovery and waste at the City of Melville, told ABC Radio Perth. “You can put all your fruit and vegetables, meat and bones, seafood, bread, dairy, tea and coffee in that bin as well as weeds, plants, tree prunings, small branches, dog poo, kitty litter.”
Compost resulting from organics recycling is used to fertilize local parks.
AND compost waste to fertilize park plants.
“It’s called the ‘poop pit’ and all dog owners scoop the poop and put it there. The pit is ‘managed’ – with mud added to it to avoid any foul smell and it will also create good manure for the park.
Bengaluru’s dog owners are extremely conscientious about the environment and about doing the right thing,” he said. Over a 100 volunteers took part in the spotfix. Full story
Waterloo, Ont.’s new dog poop power pilot project was the talk of the town in April 2017, with its promise of unleashing pet waste as a renewable energy resource.
Dubbed “poop power” by Mayor Dave Jaworsky, the pilot project starts with three pet waste containers placed in three Waterloo parks, including Bechtel Park, which has a leash-free dog zone. The project ends with biogas produced at the Bio-EN Power plant in Elmira.
Photo: Steven Cseresnyesi, vice president, Sutera In-Ground
