Cite? If for health reasons, would this also apply to baby diapers?
I have three dogs plus a foster dog, which means I am picking up approximately eight droppings a day, since they go twice a day, after eating. They don’t all four get walked or taken places on a daily basis, and my yard is humungous, so a lot of it deposited in the yard. I keep a five-gallon bucket with a lid and garbage bag, pick up the shit with plastic baggies and put it in the bucket; goes out all bagged up in my trash every week.
If it were theoretically illegal to put it in my own trash, or in anyone else’s trash, how in heck would I theoretically get rid of it? Flush down the loo? Doggie Doolie?
I also use Dumpsters, they’re at all the county parks around here for some reason; I assume in part for disposal of trash generated in the park.
Flush it, same thing with diaper waste. A recent thread here said that someone told their trash collector at their new place that it was good to see him, because they had a ton of diapers to offload, and was told that feces had to be flushed.
I was yelled at once too. The woman rushed up to me and pointed at the garbage bin and yelled “Does that belong to you?” and I answered “No, it belongs to the city, just like it says on the side,” and I pointed to where it said “Property of.” She stood there staring at it while I walked away.
I wasn’t trying to be a smartass or anything. Really, and I wouldn’t care if anybody threw a poop bag in my trash can while walking by. I pay $x per month to have my garbage picked up, and so does everybody else. I will not throw anything in her trash again, because she objects to it, and I’m not interested in baiting or taunting anybody. I appreciate those who pick up after their dogs, and making it more difficult for them to do it isn’t in anybody’s interest.
Or the venomous critters with firecrackers in their mouth and when they bite, they shoot firecrackers at you.
Some people can be awfully sensitive about what they consider to be signs of disrespect, even, like in the OP’s scenario, taking it to the point of sillyness. I’d probably just wait until I saw a trashcan without a lid and casually drop it in without much fanfare. I’ve done this with the occasional cans and bottles drivers have littered the street with. Bagged doggy detritus isn’t all that different.
There are actually a couple of people in my neighborhood who have signs above their trash cans saying, “Do NOT throw your dog poop in this trash can!” I think they are against it for 2 reasons, the first being that even when it is bagged dog poop still smells and when it gets to be 88 or 90 degrees during the day that can make your whole trash can smell like evil. If you are one of the last ones on the trash guy’s route that poop could have been sitting there for several hours funking up your can. The second reason is that my neighborhood is very densely populated and lots of people here own dogs so if every third dog owner throws their dog poop in your trash can you could quickly end up with half your can filled with poop and no room for your trash.
While I understand those reasons and they are legitimate I can’t imagine doing anything that would encourage people to leave their dog’s poop where it fell instead of picking it up and throwing it out.
Sorry,no cite. I do remember people asking for help on a dog site because they weren’t allowed to use the garbage. I can’t say where. My guess is that the public health is best served by allowing the biodegradable matter to go in the garbage. Of course even matter not sealed in plastic never degrades in a landfill.
Certainly there are people that respect property enough to dump the poo in my can, but there are plenty of others that don’t that leave the can in a state more appetizing to wandering dogs. It doesn’t take many iterations of cleaning the trash off your lawn that you had carefully sealed the can against before you don’t want anyone but the sanitation people to touch the cans you’ve left out for disposal.
People saying “what’s the big deal?” picture just dropping the bag into the bin and leaving things exactly as they found them. It only takes one jerk that doesn’t leave things as they found them to ruin it for everyone else.
I do object to having people throw bags of dog poop into my empty trash cans - after they’ve been emptied by the city but before we’re home to take them back into the garage. The reason for my objection is that I have more than once had a problem with less-than-sturdy dog poop bags breaking open. Then the poop gets on the bottom of the trash can. And it smells really really bad inside a closed garage. Combine a heavy downpour with an unsturdy dog poop bag and you come home to poop soup in the bottom of the garbage can. I don’t appreciate having to wash my garbage cans.
If TV is to be believed! Isn’t once the trash can is on the street it is back in the public domain? According to those tv cops shows detectives can go through your trash to find evidence against you – so it seems logical I should be able to throw trash in there. The trash can itself does not belong to the homeowner, it is property of the city typically in my experience. I know on the side of my trash container it says “property of __ city”. So someone throwing trash into this container is just throwing trash into a pubilc container that just happens to be on the public street in front of your house isn’t it? But I can see people getting riled about it but seems silly to me.
Now if you came ONTO my property than I would have an issue with it, but throwing trash into the container in front of my house. Nope–have fun, and if it keeps trash off the street, even better. But I don’t have a dog and I live in a very rural area so it isn’t an issue here but it is an interesting discussion to me.
We used to do this in an area where we walked the dogs that backed on to an alley with garbage cans. One of the residents put up a sign asking people not to put dog poop bags in their garbage can, so we stopped doing it and carry it home or to the next public garbage can. It’s really not a huge deal.
It uses velcro and elastic to fit onto those retractable dog leashes. It’s roomy. I use one compartment for dirty bags and the other for a roll of empties. There’s enough space to hold a wallet and car keys in the clean side, as well as outer mesh pouches for dog treats. For $5, it’s a really good bag and it’s made dog walking much more pleasant.
I walk my dog almost every day and I’ve never considered putting her poop in other people’s trash cans!
Although, the rule here is that you can’t (shouldn’t) put your cans out until after dusk, and the trash only goes on the curb once a week, so I rarely ever pass other people’s trash cans on a walk. We’re not out that late.
I do toss my bag into the school dumpster if we walk at the school. I do feel bad about it. But there are cameras there and they know who I am. If it was a real problem, they can find me
That’s by no means universal. In my experience, “typical” is completely the opposite. I can’t think of a single community in all of SE Michigan that has city-owned garbage cans for residential use.
How can they not enter your property to use the trash can? While (as noted above) experiences are different, are there places where people put their trash cans on the road? (Even in communities that have easements between the walk and the road, it’s still your property; the easement isn’t for public use.)
If they put it in the can before it gets collected (when it is in the curb), I don’t care at all - how am I even going to see it ? It won’t stick to the bottom because presumably the cans already were mostly full if they got put out at the curb to be emptied. It is annoying when people put garbage in my cans after they have been emptied - it happens to me sometimes and sometimes they “try” to put garbage in my cans from a car but miss. Don’t give me your mess.
If somebody puts items in my cans not on trash day I would be pissed - but that would be because they walked through my yard and opened my fence gate to get at them in the first place.
Interesting–so you purchased you own garbage can? Our trash and recycle containers are provided to us here.
I have to put my trash can on the street edge but it isn’t my property. I have to admit though I live in a very non typical area. The neighborhood is composed of 2 1/2 to 10 acre lots with a common community owned road that winds through. So I don’t even see my neighbors but the concept is the same as the old place lived at.
At my old neighborhood we were to line the cans along the sidewalk which again wasn’t my property. I am again assuming the sidewalk in front of my house isn’t my property although I am responsible for maintenance of it–but to be honest I have never checked where the property line was relative to the sidewalk. I just made the assumption (dumb on my part!) that you had to put your garbage cans on the public right of way. Isn’t that typical for most suburban or urban neighborhoods? I recall one time the trash company didn’t pick my trash up and after calling to find out, it turns out that the cans were too far into my driveway–they were about 2 feet in! I know there are lots of rules with trash pick up. I have to have my recycle and trash receptacles a min of 3’ apart or they won’t pick it up. I assume it is because they don’t want to be moving trash cans around, etc.
In Washington, DC, for example, most of my neighbors keep their cans out in the alley behind their houses, they are on public property and it is not unusual for passersby to use them. I’d rather they use the cans than litter in the alley. It’s also not a big deal if, on trash night, your can is full to use a neighbor’s can for overflow.
Where I live (Chicago suburbs) you buy your own trash can but not your recycle bin, which is one of those huge wheeled bins with a hinged flap top. We got a new trash company and they refused to pick up our trash their first week because our bin was too large; we had a 48-gallon can, and they only allowed 32 gallon cans at the largest. Plus, we have to buy stickers for each additional trash can or large and acceptable item-to-be-trashed per week, for IIRC $1.25 each additional thing. So I’m glad I’m not on a big dog-walking route; we put out our trash the early evening before trash day, and put it back the next day after work, like most people on our street.
Isn’t once the trash can is on the street it is back in the public domain? According to those tv cops shows detectives can go through your trash to find evidence against you – so it seems logical I should be able to throw trash in there. The trash can itself does not belong to the homeowner, it is property of the city typically in my experience. I know on the side of my trash container it says “property of __ city”. So someone throwing trash into this container is just throwing trash into a pubilc container that just happens to be on the public street in front of your house isn’t it? But I can see people getting riled about it but seems silly to me.