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Ithaca group tests composting of pooch poop
BY WILLIAM KATES The Associated Press

    ITHACA
    A group of upstate New York dog owners thinks it has a can-do plan to profitably compost the tons of dog doo left behind by the roughly 50,000 canines that use the city’s pooch park each year.
    If their pilot project is successful, the Tompkins County Dog Owners Group and Cayuga Compost hope to market usable compost within the next two or three years.
    More importantly, finding a use for the billions of pounds of pooch poop produced yearly in the United States could also lead to a significant reduction in the amount of waste material sent to landfills, said Leon Kochian, a spokesman for TC DOG, the not-for-profit volunteer group involved in funding the project.
    “There was a large Dumpster at the park, and it was just always overflowing with plastic bags of dog poop. The amount was unbelievable,” said Kochian, a Cornell University biology professor who owns a yellow Labrador retriever.
    “Ithaca has a reputation as a green community. ... It made sense to us to find a way to compost and spare the landfill from all the plastic bags,” Kochian said.
    Dog and cat waste contain parasites and pathogens that make them unsuitable as compost for vegetable gardens and topsoil and can run off into local waterways and diminish water quality, said Cary Oshins, an assistant program director for the U.S. Composting Council. Composted pet waste can be used for deepfill or other purposes.
    There are any number of smallscale backyard pet waste composters and converters available on the market, but Oshins said he had not heard of any place in the.............>>>>..............>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....1&Continuation=1

Someone call the methane gas police please.

why aregue with good things people ? THEY WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE OVER ETHERE SO THEM !

Thought this was about Sal's posts.

Of course only liberals could come up with a multi-million dollar solution to something that degrades naturally in sunlight and rain. But don't put it in your veggie garden...

OMG!!!!  that means we will all be composting our crap again.....wait,,,,,that would be septic/sewers.......