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'Bag that poo – any rubbish bin will do': Keep Britain Tidy launch campaign
Keep Britain Tidy is today launching its campaign to try to rid England of the menace of dog mess with the help of a mum who knows all too well the damage it can do.
There are currently around eight million dogs in the UK, producing approximately one million metric tonnes of faeces each year – that’s enough to lay 1,300 Wembley pitches.
Keep Britain Tidy's month-long campaign, supported by 85 councils up and down the country, has one simple message – Bag that poo – any rubbish bin will do – and, to reinforce the message, we are reminding dog owners that 'there's no such thing as the Dog Poo Fairy'.
A recent Keep Britain Tidy survey revealed that four out of five people do not know that bagged dog mess can be thrown in any litter bin.
Suzanne Langdon's two-year-old daughter Amiee was playing in the park when she fell and put her hand in dog mess. Before Suzanne could get to her, Amiee had put her hand to her eye.
Despite her mother's efforts to clean her eye and those of the doctors who treated her with three different antibiotics, Amiee has lost 75 per cent of the sight in her left eye and mum Suzanne has been told that she is unlikely to be able to drive when she grows up.
Amiee's life has been changed forever – and it's all thanks to a thoughtless dog owner who didn't follow the simple message – bag it and bin it.
In recent years, there has been a growing problem of dog waste bags found hanging on trees, on railings or stuffed in hedges. It would appear that some dog owners are heeding the message to pick up their dog’s mess but, if there is no dog fouling bin available, they are simply dumping the bags. Keep Britain Tidy’s latest campaign aims to raise awareness that any litter bin can be used and, if there is no bin around, the bagged mess should be taken home and put in a household bin.
There are currently around eight million dogs in the UK, producing approximately one million metric tonnes of faeces each year – that’s enough to lay 1,300 Wembley pitches.
Keep Britain Tidy's month-long campaign, supported by 85 councils up and down the country, has one simple message – Bag that poo – any rubbish bin will do – and, to reinforce the message, we are reminding dog owners that 'there's no such thing as the Dog Poo Fairy'.
A recent Keep Britain Tidy survey revealed that four out of five people do not know that bagged dog mess can be thrown in any litter bin.
Suzanne Langdon's two-year-old daughter Amiee was playing in the park when she fell and put her hand in dog mess. Before Suzanne could get to her, Amiee had put her hand to her eye.
Despite her mother's efforts to clean her eye and those of the doctors who treated her with three different antibiotics, Amiee has lost 75 per cent of the sight in her left eye and mum Suzanne has been told that she is unlikely to be able to drive when she grows up.
Amiee's life has been changed forever – and it's all thanks to a thoughtless dog owner who didn't follow the simple message – bag it and bin it.
In recent years, there has been a growing problem of dog waste bags found hanging on trees, on railings or stuffed in hedges. It would appear that some dog owners are heeding the message to pick up their dog’s mess but, if there is no dog fouling bin available, they are simply dumping the bags. Keep Britain Tidy’s latest campaign aims to raise awareness that any litter bin can be used and, if there is no bin around, the bagged mess should be taken home and put in a household bin.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Keep Britain Tidy is today launching its campaign to try to rid England of the menace of dog mess - around eight million dogs in the UK,that’s enough to lay 1,300 Wembley pitches
If we can't tell the difference between Britain, England and the UK, should anyone wonder that the new Wembley dogshit pitch has had to be renewed so often?
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Let's hope this makes a difference - the sight of little plastic bags of poo carefully hanging from a tree branch makes my brain go into meltdown. Urh? You care enough to pick it up but care so little that you then just leave it in a bag where it will never decompose at all???? I went to an amazing park a few miles further out of London a few weeks back and there were a couple of bushes that looked like they were covered in Xmas decorations, all those lovely bags of poo shimmering in the wind.
But do people really do this because they don't know they could put it in a normal bin....?
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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Where my parents live (near Derby) there is a tree in the local park which is next to a poop bin and constantly covered in bags of waste - the problem there is that local "yoofs" take the bags out of the bin and decorate the tree with them - apparently for fun! I mean, what could be a more enjoyable way to spend an evening than going to the park to chuck dog poop around?
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Permalink Reply by OneWomanAndHerDog on
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As a dog owner who always poops and scoops I welcome this initiative. This shouldn't be a 'them versus us' argument - I don't want to stand in or sit on dog crap any more than a non dog owner. In fact I'd rather like to catch the culprit who lets their apparently massive dog crap outside my house.
However, there is a lot of confusion out there about whether it is okay to put poop in regular litter bins - to some extent, I suspect, because overzealous park keepers and street sweepers tell dog owner not to do it. Still, that's no excuse for decorating shrubberies with the stuff.
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Permalink Reply by Julie - WPRNW on
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i had a discussion with a woman in lordship rec the other day. she didnt 'get' why organic matter should be put in plastic bag.
while i came back with why not use biodegradable bag, she wasnt convinced.
i also said there was a reason the police fine for this offense.
anyone else have any good comments to say to those who dont so as they should?
the best i could come up with was, 'this is still a public park, not a public toilet'
this story has terrible consequence, one i will point to in future when out running and spotting countless dog owners walking their dogs without a bag on them, seeing them not pick up after their dog.
i welcome such a campaign.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I've just come back from Sydney and pretty much every public space was littered (no pun intended) with dog bins (and here is the magic) and a bag dispensor, in case you do not have a plastic bag on you... The number of times we found dog muck anywhere were pretty limited, I have to say. Cause/ Effect?
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Just to add a note about persons having walked on poo-d pavements coming indoors and hoiking their shoes onto sofas and chairs.
The poo infected soles now soil surfaces that become dangerous for all persons especially children.
Same applies to dogs who clamber onto furniture and kitchen units after their walkies.
How many TV celebrities have you seen on the interview couch with their shoes tucked under their rumps?
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Permalink Reply by Neville Collins on
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I can sympathise with most dog owners. In my job as a roadsweeper, I have to clean up a lot of dog poo left on the pavement. Even if the poo has been bagged they're often left in tree pits and on the kerb. Some of it, of course, end up on my boots! Any initiative educating people backed up with strict enforcement of the law on dog fouling by councils should be welcomed.
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