Composting Dog Poo At Home

Have you ever wondered how you could make your own dog poo composter at home? You might think this takes "going green" just a little too far - but it does have it's benefits. It's easy and inexpensive to make a dog poo composter, and you can recycle the compost as a fertilizer for decorative plants, or let it decompose and enter the subsoil. Dog waste is biodegradeable by itself, yet we are wrapping it in plastic, and sending it to an airless landfill - where it may outlive us all. City Farmer has simple dog waste composter step-by-step instructions, if you would like to try making your own.

To make your own dog poo composter, the materials you will need:

* Plastic garbage bin
* Drill
* Shovel
* Hand saw
* Rocks
* Septic starter

Use the saw to cut a hole in the bottom of the plastic garbage bin, and drill a few holes in the side of it. Take the shovel and dig a hole large and deep enough for the plastic garbage bin to fit in, with the top rim sticking out above ground. Throw a few rocks in the bottom for drainage, and you've just made yourself a dog poo composter. You use the septic starter the first time you add dog poo into the composter. The dog poo will degrade and decompose, sifting down to the bottom, and through the holes on the side.

Note: If you do use this as a fertilizer in plants, it's important to remember not to use this on plants that you eat - only decorative plants. Dog feces can carry bacteria such as E.Coli, and possibly parasites - so use caution.

For more information, City farmer has step by step instructions for the dog poo composter, along with pictures here...

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