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Much of the 11 million tons of dog waste generated in the U.S. each year is trashed and streamed to lined and sealed landfills. The rest...

Since 2015 committed dog park visitors have been using compostable bags and separate bins to make the town's dog waste composting program...

A community in New South Wales is offering free worm bins to residents to see if the units are a practical solution for recycling dog...

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...

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...

Cat owners served by Valley Waste Resource Management (VWRM) in Nova Scotia now have the option of putting used kitty litter in the green...

Ramsey Bond dearly loved her dog, Summit, but she was all too familiar with the “back end” of dog ownership. In preparing to earn her bachelor’s degree in sustainability studies at Colorado Mountain College, Bond took that “back end” challenge head-on through animal waste composting. As part of her capstone project, Bond teamed up with the Colorado Animal Rescue shelter (CARE) in Spring Valley, which is adjacent to the college’s veterinary technology farm, to build an outdoor

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...

For nearly a decade, the City of Edmonton has been turning dog poop into compost. With an estimated 150,000 dogs in the city, there's a...

Ottawa residents may begin dumping dog feces, cat litter and plastic bags filled with organic waste into their green bins starting on July 2, 2019. The inclusion of plastic bags and pet waste in the municipal composting program has been in the works for months, after the last city council approved the change in late March 2018. The city hopes the change will incentivize more households to participate in the green bin program. Heavier use of green bins “will divert more organi