To not pick up dog poo...

[Moonfishstar]

... when in a quiet forest, but to flick it with a stick into dense undergrowth instead?

I don't see any issue with this, but I've got a feeling lots will disagree with me, so I wanted to get some other opinions.

Then you'd know the best mode of risk assessment is cutting out the risk altogether at the source. Aka picking up the dog shit.

No, it's not laziness, honestly it's not. In my case it's least worse option (that I'm willing to change). My calculation is that the environment harm from the poo bag, its collection and disposal is worse than the environmental harm of 'stick and flick'. The chance a child will pick it up and get sick, just isn't a factor because the chance they'll come across it is just so remote. I am willing to consider the downstream sickness risks of it though, it leaching into the soil, then into waterways etc .

Oh ok, so everyone has to take a 'risk assessment' of whether or not to enter a forest, purely because one cannot be bothered to pick up their dog shit. Yeah that's brilliant that is.

No it's not. I'm also a H&S professional. Risks have to be balanced against benefits. Prime example- skiing.

Justifying it with another type of hazard is just kicking the same problem down a different road. Yeah you get points for going down one road for ethical reasons but still lose points for going down a different road. You still buy the same poo bag as you would for using in a built up area when people are watching.

Did the UK exempt itself?

The EU decision in 1990 only allowed rBST to be used for research purposes in member states.

It's disgusting not to pick it up,

What are the benefits of not picking up dog shit exactly?

Emily if you drove @ 30mph down a country lane you would cause more problems than anyone actually driving at the actual speed limit.
Apreciate what you’re saying but you would not only cause road rage the amount of people trailing behind you ( as you drive well below the speed limit ) and subsequently trying to get past you could easily cause a crash.

I see it all the time when sheep are on the way to market or tractors of hay, at least they realise they are going too slow and pull to the side though..

Going so far under the speed limit is Far more likely to cause an accident.

Taking about speeding, aka going above the designated speed limit, not driving at a legal speed that another might consider merely as inconvenient. Going over the speed limit in a country lane has the potential devastating result as that of going over the speed in a built up area.

Poo bags in landfill

Rural roads are more dangerous for all users- more people die from speeding related accidents on rural roads (as well as more dying there in general).

No it doesn’t!

It does. Speeding kills more people on rural roads than urban ones (and rural roads kill more people in general).

But the risk to others is less. Which @Emily1583 is saying. That’s who I replying to.

I’m more likely to kill myself on a country lane than hit another person, compared to if I was doing 40 in a town.

You don't use a bag, pollution from the production of the bag, use of earth resources (usually oil) . Disposal of bag, truck journeys, pollution from truck, risk of rtc from trucks. Workers collecting poo getting contaminated. Disposal of poo itself (in fairness, I don't know how this happens and could possibly have some benefits, ie, could have some industrial uses). I would seriously expect the risks of picking up the poo in the remote countryside locations I walk my dog I would have a higher chance of contamination, and sickness from accidently getting poo on my hands, than there would be of a child coming across it and then getting sick.

The very same poo bags you'd pick up dog shit in a built up area with because someone might spot you...

Not talking about going over the speed limit in either.
Talking about going faster down country lanes.
As…The speed limit on country lanes is not as low as for built up areas.
Theres a reason for that and it’s based on risk.

Hence my example above re dangers of driving on country lanes using town speed limits.
This was the previous discussion between yourself and OOO

Do you not use same said plastic bags to pick up dog shit in a built up area though??

@Kendodd
some of it is burnt
some tiny amount tho is used as fuel
the majority of councils have neither the money nor resources ( ours doesn’t) and it goes to landfill.

I don’t walk my dog in built up areas.

Of course there are different speed limits but going over that said speed limit be it country lane is the same as going over the speed limit in a built up area.

I walk my dog, off path, through the forest beside us every morning. I don't want your dog's shit on my shoes or my DC's shoes even though we aren't using a path. Takes 2 seconds and no effort to scoop the poop.

I do. Because I don't usually walk my dog in urban areas though I use a lot fewer bags overall. Also, in urban areas the risk/benefit ratio shifts. Besides the pure risk factor, dog shit in urban areas or places where people might step in it (even if health risks were zero) is just unpleasant and an annoyance we don't need.

This isn’t e remote situation though. In the area you describe I would pick it up