What do you do with the poo?

[MiddleClassProblem]

For years we have been bagging it up and putting it in the bin. Often try to get a few in one bag to reduce the bags used. I’m fed up of it and would like to be more environmentally friendly.

My mum has always dig up holes and buried it in the garden but our garden is mostly lawn and backs directly on to a house so doing it at the bottom of the garden wouldn’t be pleasant for them.

Considering a wormery. Anybody have one?

Anybody have any other ingenious disposal techniques?

I can’t do a clicky link thing - quick reply but www.pet-bliss.co.uk seem to do the type of toilet I’m talking about. It’s armitage green dog loo and chemical. Bury it in ground with the lid surface level, chuck poop in and it biodegrades down and goes into the ground. It even comes with a scoop.

Is this it?

www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Boy-Clean-Green-Dog/dp/B000O0U1WI?tag=mumsnetforum-21

I tried to use a composter. Didn't work! Grim excavation 2 years later.
We have an outside toilet, I don't know why we didn't always use it.

catastropheKate - who owns the field?

If you don't then you really shouldn't do this.
There was a thread a while ago from a farmer who was fed up with dog walkers leaving their poo on her land, as it passed on several nasty illnesses to her sheep and cows. Illnesses that made her flock/herd not fit for human consumtion, so pretty disastrous for her farm. All caught from dog poo.

We had one of those chemical holes in the ground that you stick the poo into. It didn’t work. Just filled up with non rotting poo.
Think DH would divorce me if I got a wormery so we bag and bin in degradable bags.

We have a wild area in the garden so it's a quick stick and flick into there. I buy the bio degradable poo bags to use if we are out and about. Love that doggy loo thing. If i had a soil pipe in a convenient location I'd be going for it

I was planning to flush it down the toilet when we get a dog, but being able to put it directly into the drain outside is genius. I wonder where ours is.

@middle, yes that looks like the one we had. I think you can then buy the solution separately on an ongoing basis.

@gibble1 - did you use the chemicals that go with it to break down the poo?

How often do you put a capsule in?

Blodplod, yes we did. It just didn’t work sadly. I had great hopes for it but need the garden to not fill up with piles of poo. Occasionally we chuck it down the drain on the patio but it’s a massive faff to get the lid up. The soil stack things look fab though!

We chuck it on the bonfire outside.... (but we are very rural and have a lot of bonfires)....

@steppemum, we do and it's arable - I realized that I should have come back and clarified, but life got in the way and I forgot. Thanks for the reminder, and thanks for reminding everyone of the dog poop danger to livestock.

@gibble1 - hmmm, that’s not great and I can understand why you abandoned it. I must admit I never dealt with our dog loo, it became a garden job which is my husbands domain. But ours did work well when we had it. I wonder if different diets for dogs makes poo break down differently?

We pick it up in a widget of toilet paper and flush it down the loo.

*Wodge