How to dispose of cat feces/soiled clay litter?

Question

If I seal in plastic bags, it goes to city landfill and WHEN will it decompose? There must be a better way?

Answer 1

If you want to be more ecologically conscious, don't use plastic. Use paper bags instead which will decompose and allow what's inside them to decompose as well. Set the paper bag into an old plastic type catfood bag, if you're worried about the bottom getting too wet and breaking before you take it out to the trash,but lift it out of the plastic bag at the garbage bin, and bring the plastic back inside with you.

Answer 2

What on earth litter do you use? If you use clay litter, all it has to do is get wet to decompose, and the pee and poop decompose without danger to the environment. If it is the plastic bag that bothers you, use a decomposable plastic bag.

The man who 'invented' cat litter died within the past five years. He was the person who made it possible for cats to live indoors. But as I recall the story (I read it in the New York Times obits, and I think I still have the facts straight), he bought a farm and much of the land was clay, so he could not farm it. Nothing would grow in it. But on a hot, dry summer day, he saw all that clay sitting there useles, dried into rock-hard sheets. So he grabbed some of it and ground it up, and put it in a pan for the cat who had just given birth so she wouldn't have to go long distances to poop, and leave her kittens. It worked so well, he began to harvest his clay, and sell it out of the trunk of his car to neighbors who had cats. They loved it.

He quit farming and became a millionaire manufacturing and selling cat litter.

Feline Pine, Yesterday's News and any clay cat liter is biodegradable.

Answer 3

All I've used is clay litter for the past thirty years. I scoop my kitty's poops and put them in those plastic shopping bags and tie them off and put it in my garbage can. When it's time to change the litter I insert the box in a plastic garbage bag and dump it, I tie it off and put it in the dumpster. I don't know a green way to dispose of of littler, I mean left all by itself, the litter is clay, it would become part of the earth again, but taking hygiene and sanitation into consideration, how else besides bagging it are you going to dispose of waste? Maybe you're onto something, maybe you can develop a garbage bag that will breakdown over time? It's something to think about.

Answer 4

What I do is I put it in a trsh bag and dump it out in the trash can.