Dog poop digester in the works?

bklyn50

Article in DNAInfo

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150825/inwood/dog-poop-digester-could-be-clean-solution-for-all-that-mess

mugofmead111

From the article:

"Dog owners would drop their pets' poop into the machines, which would provide the energy to power lamps and other park equipment.

The city parks department is currently considering a yearlong pilot that would install digesters in three city parks at the cost of $100,000."

That's assuming dog owners actually pick up after their dogs in the first place. I'd love to see more enforcement of the pooper scooper law, because not enough people are abiding by it.

bklyn50

@mugofmead111:
I raised this article only because I have been accused of being a dog/dogperson hater by some of the people who see the re-seeding of Brower Park as an assault on them.

The article raises the point that dog feces is seen as a "quality of life" problem all over NYC

bklyn50

Any possible movement towards a solution of dog excrement has to be considered.

Enforcement of the pooper-scooper laws is virtually impossible; law enforcement will tell you that they have to see the person walking away from their dog after it has dumped.

whynot_31

I would not limit the problem to NYC.

Dogs are present all over the world, have been with mankind for thousands of years.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130514-dogs-domestication-humans-genome-science/

Someday, those dogs will leave us alone.

mugofmead111

Any possible movement towards a solution of dog excrement has to be considered.

Enforcement of the pooper-scooper laws is virtually impossible; law enforcement will tell you that they have to see the person walking away from their dog after it has dumped.

Then why bother passing a law in the first place? (I feel similarly about the lowering of the speed limit and other Vision Zero stuff.) 

Like @whynot_31 said, the problem is not limited to NYC. In Philadelphia someone got killed over a dispute over dog poop. (He confronted the dog owner who was an offender, and the guy shot him.) 

Maybe the de Blasio administration should focus on this instead of the desnudas in Times Square.

bklyn50

Because, @mugofmead111, the creation of laws and regulations sets the accepted expectations of a community. W/o those laws, then you fall into an anarchist's paradise.

Should we get rid of traffic laws b/c of road rage?

As far as the desnudas, I may be mistaken, but it is or was illegal for men to be nude to the waist, in areas where it wasn't expected (i.e. public pools, beaches, etc.)

No one likes playing dog-poop hop-scotch.

@whynot_31:
Dog domestication is a fact of life. Humans organizing into towns and cities has also been with us for millenia.
Excrement in the public way was a hazard then, and still is now.
How we deal with it....

whynot_31

If women walk around naked, there is no way that male dog owners are going to watch their dog close enough to even know when it poops, much less pick it up.

...but I don't know if that will be enough to quiet DeBlasio's critics.