New York

Albany Flush it down the toilet if your sewage goes to a treatment plant.

Battery Park Battery Park City’s zero waste initiatives includes a program that composts waste for the park’s three dog runs using two retrofitted Earth Cubes manufactured by Green Mountain Technologies. The city is now using the compost to enrich landscape. Check out the news on the BPCA program expansion.

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Brooklyn Heights Friends of Hillside Dog Park installed compost bins along with pooper scoopers and biodegradable brown paper. Scooped poop goes into a composting tumbler, gets mixed with sawdust, wood chips, or other carbon-filled material to cook for months. Here’s the scoop.

Ithaca

A 2009 pilot partnership between dog owners and a compost company in Ithaca, N.Y. completed a large-scale composting of waste collected at the city’s dog park. The multi-year project produced safe compost which was donated for municipal use.  See the Ithaca video.

New York City Dog or other animal waste can be disposed of in your household trash, flushed down the toilet, or, if it is in a tied bag, discarded in a public litter basket.

"A simple and elegant solution would be to introduce dog poop composting drop-offs in all the parks in NYC." - Now This, Lucy Biggers and Alejandro Alba

Village of Rockville Centre Flush It: The best way to dispose of pet waste is to flush it down the toilet. Just remember to remove the waste from the bag or the litter before putting it in the toilet

Williamsburg The Martha P. Johnson Dog Park in Brooklyn tested the feasibility of on-site dog waste composting using scoopers and cedar bins. The site, now named  Marsha P. Johnson State Park, has successfully operated the program for six years. See a webinar featuring the update.