Upstate dog owners have a plan to try to profitably compost the billions of pounds of canine crap produced each year in the U.S, according to the New York Post. The Ithaca group—led by the Tompkins County Dog Owners Group and Cayuga Compost—hopes to market the usable compost within the next few years, and in so doing, significantly reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills.
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“There are 73 million pet dogs in the United States,” says the story. “The average dog produces about 274 pounds of waste per year, which means total dog waste in the United States is more than 20 billion pounds.” Um, yeah, that’ll make throw up in your mouth a little bit, no matter how much you love your pet.
While there are many small-scale pet waste composters available on the market already, the Ithaca group wanted to deal with all the doggy doo on a bigger scale. Large-scale composting has worked well for Montreal, where municipal officials have been composting dog crap since 2004. Those Canadians sure are geniuses…
What do you guys think of this strategy?