Recyling small pet waste.

[Drago]

Our council won't take my garden waste bin because it's "too heavy" for their little machine, but they can't give me a kilogram figure as to what would be an acceptable max weight. Duh.

 

[Accy cyclist]

If any of you would like to send rabbit droppings to me i could use it as plant fertilizer for my palm tree. My address is 18 Palm Tree Road. Palm Springs Accrington.

 

[Drago]

Hairy Palm Tree Road?

 

[fossyant]

I’d compost the sawdust, Fossy. If you don’t have a big compost heap and have a compostable waste bin, read the rules carefully: animal waste is often banned - and in some places the collectors do check and reject stuff that they think is contaminated. Cat pee is quite... well, detectable.

This may be justified - industrial-scale composting needs quick decomposition to keep the bulk of stuff being handled to reasonable proportions, and it can be slowed by some substances, which, for all I know, may include cat pee. Your little contribution would probably make no differences, but there are lots of cats and if everyone does it....

I don't think my wife would be too happy using the compost bin, plus it would be rather full. More landfill then !

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I don't think my wife would be too happy using the compost bin, plus it would be rather full. More landfill then !

I don't know if you can, but with 4 cats fitting a cat flap and teaching them to do their business outside would save you disposing of cat litter.
My cat has a flap, but refused to use the outdoors until I changed his covered box that was getting a bit tatty with another, identical one.
He did not like the new one for some reason (filled with the usual litter btw), so he goes out now.
I still keep the box just in case, because I lock him in at night (a mouse at 3am disrupts my sleep ) but he's not used it for months.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

My cat has a flap,

Mine sometimes panics

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

+1 for composting. It all rots away if stirred from time to time. Or if no space for a compost bim - dig a hole in the garden and bury it

 

[ianbarton]

Hello all,

Now, I'd like to do something with the waste sawdust, hay, straw, poo that doesn't involve lobbing it in the non-recycling waste. Does anybody on here compost the stuff, or similar?

Thanks!

We live on a farm. So the rabbits are bedded down on straw. When we clean them out all the stuff goes into the muck spreader. You can compost straw, but it takes quite a long time to rot.

 

[fossyant]

I don't know if you can, but with 4 cats fitting a cat flap and teaching them to do their business outside would save you disposing of cat litter.
My cat has a flap, but refused to use the outdoors until I changed his covered box that was getting a bit tatty with another, identical one.
He did not like the new one for some reason (filled with the usual litter btw), so he goes out now.
I still keep the box just in case, because I lock him in at night (a mouse at 3am disrupts my sleep ) but he's not used it for months.

Slight problem, 3 of cats are house cats, so the waste is from the three. 2 pedigrees and a rescue that has cat flu. Still it's a lot of wee and poo.

 

[Brains]

Get a large Chimnea, mixed with logs it will burn (slowly)

 

[fossyant]

Get a large Chimnea, mixed with logs it will burn (slowly)

What, the cat litter Got the large chimnea.

Worth the mess, the indoor cats had smelt the chicken.