DC Resident Fined Thousands For Not Recycling Cat Litter

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/d...-litter-121311

Pat wrote:

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/d...-litter-121311

I've never heard of a law like this. Dirty cat litter in the paper
recycling? How does that work? How are they supposed to separate that?

I read all of the comments, and one person just said she should stop
worrying about it and just put the litter in the recycling, like they're
telling her to do. I think that's a good idea. If she keeps all the
paperwork from this incident (and previous ones), then she'll be able
to present them *when* (not if) there are compaints about cat poop in
the recycling.

Other than that comment, though, the rest were made by morons. Where do
these cretins come from?

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Pat wrote:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/d...-litter-121311

HUH???? Just how does one "recycle" cat litter? (Especially if one
lives in a city where trash pick-up is a public utility?)

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:38:39 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



Pat wrote:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/d...-litter-121311

HUH???? Just how does one "recycle" cat litter? (Especially if one
lives in a city where trash pick-up is a public utility?)

The "litter" was homemade, consisting of shredded paper and junk mail.
Not a bad idea, but once a cat pees or poops on it, clearly is should
not go in as recycleable paper. But the very last line of the article
states that for at least one ticket the problem was that other
recycleable stuff was found in the trash, not the litter.

I've sort of run into the same ethical quandry, where some cardboard
is used to scoop up cat vomit. The vomit ends up down the toilet, but
the cardboard ends up in the trash. I can't, in good conscience, put
cat vomit contaminated cardboard out for recycling.

On 12/16/2011 9:52 AM, dgk wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:38:39 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



Pat wrote:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/d...-litter-121311

HUH???? Just how does one "recycle" cat litter? (Especially if one
lives in a city where trash pick-up is a public utility?)

The "litter" was homemade, consisting of shredded paper and junk mail.
Not a bad idea, but once a cat pees or poops on it, clearly is should
not go in as recycleable paper. But the very last line of the article
states that for at least one ticket the problem was that other
recycleable stuff was found in the trash, not the litter.

I've sort of run into the same ethical quandry, where some cardboard
is used to scoop up cat vomit. The vomit ends up down the toilet, but
the cardboard ends up in the trash. I can't, in good conscience, put
cat vomit contaminated cardboard out for recycling.

I don't see why not. Food wrappers (by law in the US) that actually
come in contact with pre-cooked food (say, such as a big mac or other
fast food) cannot be made with recycled paper products... the bag that
the fast food comes in, can be made of a certain percentage of recycled
- an most places that use such, these bags are a white based, which
means that it is BLEACHED...

AND - have you seen the process by which they recycle these paper
products? The stuff gets boiled into a pulp in huge vats (I'm talking
extremely high temp boiled), then strained to get any remaining
non-paper remnants out. This is AFTER its run through a industrial
shredder to make bite-sized bits out of it.


I think it's all pretty much sterilized by the time it's reclaimed and
made into a new product.
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I wonder if they'd get after someone who used "Yesterday's News" brand of
cat litter, if they didn't recycle the litter.

Ridiculous.

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:41:44 -0600, "Pat"
wrote:

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/d...-litter-121311

And if he DID recycle it, they'd fine him for putting cat poop in the
recyling bin. Ugh. There's one kitty at the shelter who uses a
paper-lined litterbox, and the LAST thing you'd want to do would be to
try to recyle that soggy disgusting STINKY mess!

On Dec 16, 9:16*pm, Kajikit wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:41:44 -0600, "Pat"
wrote:

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/d...ousands-for-no...

And if he DID recycle it, they'd fine him for putting cat poop in the
recyling bin. Ugh. There's one kitty at the shelter who uses a
paper-lined litterbox, and the LAST thing you'd want to do would be to
try to recyle that soggy disgusting STINKY mess!

I think the reason for not recycling dirty cat litter is the same for
not recycling
used toilet paper and flush them (tp) down the toilet after use.

Magic Mood Jeep wrote:

On 12/16/2011 9:52 AM, dgk wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:38:39 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



Pat wrote:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/d...sands-for-not-
recycling-cat-litter-121311

HUH???? Just how does one "recycle" cat litter? (Especially if one
lives in a city where trash pick-up is a public utility?)
snip
AND - have you seen the process by which they recycle these paper
products? The stuff gets boiled into a pulp in huge vats (I'm talking
extremely high temp boiled), then strained to get any remaining
non-paper remnants out. This is AFTER its run through a industrial
shredder to make bite-sized bits out of it.


I think it's all pretty much sterilized by the time it's reclaimed and
made into a new product.

Ah, but prior to that point... (ulp)

Um, maybe the hesitation as-expressed is out of consideration to the hard-
workin' folk who are tasked (and paid little enuf) to wrestle truckloads of
Ghawd Knows Whatall from the curb to ther truck and then to the
sorting/recycling facility?

Just thinkin' in pixels.... 0{;-)o
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