Was thinking about this on my walk this morning. Lilly made a deposit probably as far away from home as it was possible to be. I scooped and carried on walking, bag in hand, resigned. I passed a row of several almost empty Blue Bins (= landfill waste up here) belonging to "The big house" and adjacent stable cottage. Was it politically correct to put my poop into the bin, or should I have carried it back home? Bearing in mind there were no dog bins, or other litter bins on my walk. What do you think? (If we scoop poop in the garden, it is the blue I would use at home. Our council says deposit "either in a dog waste bin, a general litter bin or domestic wheelie bin" )
I would have taken mine home because I am horribly law abiding (stupid of me), but probably sensible to have dropped it in the bin, not sure what is or what is not, politically correct in this case!
If the bins are proper wheelie bins, where the dustmen empty the entire contents, I don't think there is anything wrong with putting waste in someone's bin. If you use compostable bags, they will compost in landfill. If you don't, they definitely should go to landfill. However. In London lots of people - critically, including me - use wheelie bins because they are handy to wheel down the drive. But binmen will only take rubbish that is bagged. That is, they reach into the bin and take out the bags, leaving any loose rubbish in the bin. AND IT DRIVES ME COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY BERSERK WHEN PEOPLE PUT DOG POO BAGS IN MY WHEELIE BIN - THEN THE BIN MEN LEAVE THE LID OPEN IN THE RAIN LEAVING ME TO PICK OUT THE SOPPING WET DOG POO BAGS AND BAG IT UP SO THE BIN MEN WILL TAKE IT. Oh. I needed to say that.
No. Mutter, grumble, bl**dy Merton council, have-you-see-my-council-tax-bill?-whinge, whine, purple ink letters of complaint...
I have a poop pac which is brill for carrying the poop 'till I get to a dog poo bin or home. http://www.amazon.co.uk/PoopPac-Wal...=UTF8&qid=1432500370&sr=8-1&keywords=poop+pac
That works ok...apart from the overly complex coloured crate sorting system and the threatening letters (threatening to stop you being able to spend an hour on a Sunday evening figuring out what goes where, by stopping collecting your recycling) if you get it wrong or don't wash out your yoghurt pots, that is.
I never got around to getting one Mags - I fancied one of the Dicky Bags. I just leave it at the side and collect it on my way back if I can, I make sure if I have a circular route I include that stretch. Sometimes I will leave it and collect it the next day and reverse my route to suit LOL. But I would note, we live in a pretty small village, and can get away with that. I often find someone has already picked it up and popped it in the bin with theirs. As I would do too. Most of the dog walkers around where I live are friends.
I do like my dickie bag. More often than not though, in preference to carrying yet something else, I just double bag the poo (in my lavender scented tough poo sacs) and put it in my pocket.
Who washes out their yoghurt pots? Is that not the dog's job? An elderly blind lady in our village accidentally put plastic in her paper bin and they refused to empty it. Sad I got rid of my dad's bins as he didn't have a clue. It is complex.
My word it is! If I washed out a yoghurt pot Obi would howl the place down. I never put poo in other people's bins. They're not really public bins. I just carry the poo home. Plus I kind of worry that people might see me put put in their bin out the window and get cranky. Also I would not like anyone putting poo in my bin. I'm not claiming that any of this is rational. Major bummer about the rubbish collection practices in your area, Julie. Can you take out your wheelie bin, get the bags out yourself, then take the wheelie bin back inside your property, so the poo bags have nowhere to go?
We have a 4-bin service. Our neighbours have no access to their back garden. So, rather than them blocking up our common close (Sophie wouldn't appreciate not getting her bike out) we have theirs in our garden. 20150524_215816.jpg by drjs_5, on Flickr Fab No glass recycling though - have to lug my gin and wine bottles down to the village hall..... (sorry its a bit dark, but hey! it was after 9.30 when I took it)
My absolute favourites are the darling people who decorate the enviroment with full poo bags. Clearly they scoop when their dog does a public poop, but as soon as there is nobody around they chuck the offending article and it dangles from a bush or lays on the path for some poor unsuspecting mug. May they tread in someone else's deposit and walk it into their shag pile. "You got the pooch. You got the poo" has always been my motto.
I must say, I wouldn't put it in someone's bin that I knew, or indeed if they might potentially see me. Unless I was invited to do so. So so far....I am a pariah.....
I know. That is the most bizarre dog owner behaviour I have ever come across. It's filthy. Four bins..flipping heck. We just have two. Non-recyclable (red lid) and recyclable (green lid). Separate trucks come for each bin. Someone else (a machine?) sorts the contents of the recycling bin. There is also a government facility where, for free, you can take dead computers and TVs, engine oil, paint, cardboard and plant trimmings/green waste. I like your stone wall, Jac.
Yup I've had to resort to double bagging into a pocket on the odd occasion. Makes me squirm every time! It's only a matter of time that one day my pocket takes a whack and well, hmmm, ewwwww! I try to carry a larger bag too (small kitchen bin liners) for a more secure double bag with plenty of room to wrap up tight. Julie it sounds like you have the same service my parents do up in yorkshire. Proper old fashioned round tin bins, proper bin men who will walk down some garden steps to pull the bag out, a strong upper-body to lug it back to the truck, and I think (or at least they used to) even leave you a fresh bin liner tucked under the lid! It's like visiting a forgotten time! It sounds like they are going to get a free pass for the new wheelie bin system because they are elderly and have steps. Bin envy! Back to the OP, it's a difficult one. There's been times I've been tempted to drop a bag into someones black bin but I've resisted. Especially if it's bin day and there are rows of bins on the kerb side! To answer your question, I do feel it is politically incorrect. Although I'm quite anti-PC so that doesn't necessarily mean don't do it, lol! As a dog owner you get immune to it, but if I wasn't, I'd probably be slightly preturbed to open my bin and get a face full of odour de la dog poop. Could be even worse if it spilled out into a bagless wheelie bin. Perhaps even worse in the summer, especially as many area's only get a landfill pickup once a fortnight. I kid you not, on a friends street, a house has stuck a poster on their bin saying "Do Not Put Your Dog Rubbish in Our Bin!". So it obviously does get to some people!
I could, yes. But then the foxes would rip open the bags, drag the resulting litter across the road, and then I'd get an angry letter about that...and the binmen don't clear up broken bags, they just leave a red card.
What a nightmare.... Can you make your bin less attractive to dog walkers than other people's bins, e.g. by using a large plastic tub that people would have to bend down to and use two hands to get the lid off? You could make a trolley for it so you could still wheel it out.
