We avoid plastic as well. It's hard to watch some cooking shows-plastic-plastic-plastic.
We use a lot of glass jars and silicone/stasher bags. Where we can't get away from plastic-ish functionality we use EcoEnclose (tape & shipping) and BeyondGreen bags. We got into Beyond Green when looking for actual compostable dog bags not not biodegradable (= breaks down into lots of little plastic pieces vs actually composting) |
I am drinking NOTHING from a plastic bottle. Only water and tea from loose tea leaves. Once in a while, once a month, I will have a canned soda as a treat. |
Good points. The poop thing is interesting. I might adopt the policy of no recycled bag, no walk! Yes, and all the people who think they are dog lovers can attack me but it is ridiculous. If every time an American dog does a poop, we use plastic, the sea life pays? Nope, my dog can relieve herself in the back yard thank you. |
Bet you can find a way around that. There is no necessary plastic except maybe in healthcare. |
It would be much better to buy those biodegradable poop bags made from corn and then recycle the plastic bags at a collection point. The plastic bags, while reused, still do not decompose and will still make their way into the environment if sent to a landfill. |
It would be better to not have a dog at all than to refuse to exercise it. I can’t believe you are actually proud of your bizarre choices. |
^. Yes. That's weird. I buy poo bags that biodegrade almost instantly and are not made of plastic. And what do you use to pick up the poop in your backyard? You have to pick that stuff up almost immediately because dog poo and groundwater is really bad bad for the environment, as well. |
Electric cars are just as polluting for the environment - you just don't hear about it as much. |
No, they are not. This is such a tired talking point it isn't even worth debunking anymore. It's like finding a link to prove that olive oil is just as bad for you as lard. |
I do not scoop backyard poop since no one walks there. If I have to do a cleanup, I use a shovel and dump it in my woods. Dog walking is a new concept. Dogs evolved from wolves because they wanted our food scraps. They didn't ask for a leash and collar. Your arguement about runoff is ridiculous. There are more deer and foxes where I live and no one picks up after them. |
My dog does not get exercise on walks. It's a sniff-o-rama, then a poop and pee, then home. We are the ones who are bizarre believing that we need all this nonsense. Sure I have owned compostable poop bags, but they are wasteful (get the pun). I will use the plastic bread bags; and those bags are not allowed in the recycle container either way, poop or no poop. In the 1970s, all you had to do is curb your dog IF you walked it. Dogs weren't abused back then,...as a matter of fact, they were happy since they ran away often to socialize (and have sex), then came back home to sleep on the porch. |
Clean up your backyard. Dog doo and poo from urban wildlife are huge contributors to storm water contamination. Can’t pick up after the wildlife so the best we can do is pick up after our dogs, which tend to have way more contaminants like E. coli than deer poo. Further, these dog Pattie’s can rob fish of oxygen and breed algae that clogs up water systems.Try not to be defensive. Learn something. Just google. Dog poop and water runoff and see have so many cities and towns around the country are trying to deal with this massive problem. https://www.ecolandscaping.org/03/developing-healthy-landscapes/ecological-landscaping-101/the-scoop-on-dog-waste/ |
I'm not cleaning up with plastic. |
I wonder if the pets are the biggest problem when compared to livestock. Anyway, smaller dogs should be favored. It is easy enough to put poop into a small hole in your yard if you're that concerned. The point is that we have had a relationship with dogs for thousands of years, but now, out of the blue, marketing and legislation has made us feel a need to bag up poop. Even if we use compostable bags (better than the biodegradable or plastic dog poop bags), it still amounts to more fossil fuel use. I think that we might need to reserve scooping with bags to urban areas. In the suburbs, we shouldn't be scooping with anything other than a shovel. |
And that's fine. No one says you have to use plastic to clean up your dog poop. But you do need to clean it up out of your yard before it hits rainwater and run off. I have a little doggie do septic system I built in my backyard. It goes right from the yard into that |