None of Your Dog’s Business
Date: June 12, 2008 | Category: Pets, The Home
In the US, our dogs produce enough waste to fill an 800-foot-tall football field every year - not the most glamorous image. And scooping all that poop into petroleum-based plastic bags not only leaches toxic chemicals as the whole package slowly breaks down (for thousands of years) in a landfill, but preserves what needn’t be preserved. Leaving scat on the ground isn’t an eco-friendly option either, as 20-30% of all pollutants in waterways can be attributed to canine waste. Solution: use a biodegradable bag. The Business Bags from Spike are made from corn, and the company recently worked with a domestic company to devise an entirely homegrown product. One of our ecofabulous ladies can attest that they decompose in the promised 45 days. Keep in mind; not much biodegrades in a landfill. Business Bags are a simple, great option for people with municipal composting. For the rest of you, check DIY composting here.
Comments
J
Date: June 12th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Thank you for the link re: composting dog poop - I mean, MANURE. We don’t have municipal composting here, and while I bought biodegradable bags, I knew that they’d just languish in the landfill. And yet there’s been so much screaming that I can’t compost it under any circumstances. And leaving it poisons the water supply, so … well, we had no option, really. I really didn’t know it was possible — thanks again.
Aaron Dalton
Date: June 13th, 2008 at 7:48 am
20-30% of waterway pollutants from canine waste?! Yikes. I knew there was a reason I prefer cats
But for all you dog-lovers out there, another good product for picking up poop is BioBag, 100% biodegradable and compostable. I’ll be featuring a BioBag review on my site soon.
- Aaron Dalton, 1GreenProduct.com
brad
Date: December 11th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
love the packaging on these better than the biobag. i’m switching to business bags. thanks!
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