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CTV News
4 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Dog poop isn't allowed in Sudbury roadside litter containers
City officials are reminding the public that they don't want to see dog waste left in litter bins around Greater Sudbury. The city of Greater Sudbury has approximately 230 roadside litter containers across the municipality and staff want to remind residents dog waste is not allowed in them. Nataly Whissell, Manager of Collection and Recycling says its not uncommon for the city to do a mail blitz to send out reminders of where the waste should go instead. 'They should be bringing it home. A couple of options there. Mixing it with your regular garbage. So we do have a maximum amount of 10% volume in your garbage can, residents can also participate in a dog waste digester support program. They can flush their the dog feces in the toilet. They can consider hiring a company to remove the pet waste. And, of course, there's always the option to deliver the extra pet waste directly to a landfill site,' she said. Whissell tells CTVNews there are several reasons why people are not allowed to dispose of pet waste in the containers. 'Often, times when there's too much dog waste in a bin, it'll cause it to be overloaded, it becomes overweight and then we can't collect from it. So we have to send extra resources out to collect. It also makes roadside litter containers pretty dirty and smelly for anybody in the surrounding area and certainly increases the likelihood that the waste collector and surrounding properties and surrounding vehicles could be sprayed with the disease causing bacteria found in dog poop,' she said. Michel Babin walks his dog along Bancroft Drive sometimes up to three times a day. Often finding dog poop bags and trash on the side of the road. 'I've been putting it into the garbage bins with the last one. It says waste…I didn't even know. I had no clue," he said. Hope McKinlay has a 3-year-old dog and says it doesn't make sense. 'There's a garbage bin for garbage. You want me to put my Gatorade bottles, my food waste, stuff like that but I can't put actual waste like 100% not if it's human. Maybe not, but dog waste is kind of the one thing that the reason is the garbage. So it's not just strewn along the trails where people walk, where they hike. I wouldn't want to step in that. I'd rather it be in the garbage,' she said. For more information on pet waste visit
BBC News
5 days ago
- General
- BBC News
'Carrying dog poo around is not human nature'
Plans to remove bins from an outdoor area in Nottinghamshire have faced criticism from some visitors who said it was not "human nature" to carry a bag of dog poo England, who operates the Sherwood Pines site, said the removal of bins was the "right thing" for the environment and suggested visitors could take dog waste home in an old ice cream tub. Jason Maclean, from Forestry England said: "We believe that this approach will help better preserve the forest, but it is also better for waste management and recycling."However, some visitors were critical of the idea, and described the move to remove bins as "very strange". One visitor to the site, Steven Williams, told the BBC that people would want to dispose of dog mess in "some way".The 56-year-old from Codnor Park said: "Human nature is not to carry a bag of dog poo around with you all day. "The thought of people taking that home in their cars or their camper vans, it's not going to happen - that's going to be abandoned." Forestry England suggested visitors bring scented bags, purpose-built pouches or old ice cream tubs and dispose of the dog waste when they get Maclean said: "The vast majority of people are responsible and we hope the responsible dog walkers continue to enjoy our woodlands but maybe plan ahead so that they bring a bag with them to take their dog poo home."Forestry England said in a social media post litter bins could often cause "problems" and called on people to bring a bag and take litter home with said: "They often overflow faster than we can empty them, and they attract wildlife, spreading litter and harming animals."Alex Dunderdale from Warwickshire agreed with the idea and said: "There's nothing worse than seeing overloaded bins. It encourages flies and wasps and people have got to be more responsible for their own litter."However, the 56-year-old added dog waste was a "whole different ball game" and said Forestry England should provide bins for people to get rid of the Taylor, who lives in Tenerife, said: "I don't think I've got enough faith in human nature to think that people would take all the litter home rather than use the bins, but it's a nice ideal." Mr Maclean said Forestry England had recently invested "heavily" in things such as play areas and changing facilities. "We think and hope that our visitors would agree that being able to do these types of things is a much better way of using our limited resources on site, than spending a lot of time and resources in dealing with waste and litter," he said."We very much hope that people can buy into that idea and support us by taking their litter home with them."
