You can recycle even when cleaning up after your kitties! I was scooping the cat litter into plastic bags each day, thinking I was recycling the bags, but duh! They still sit in the landfill, not breaking down.
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I use the cat food bags and the old litter bags as well to dispose of the old litter. That way those big bags get recycled. This is when doing the week clean out of litter boxes. We have 4 kitties.
I have been buying the 39 gallon trash bags, and a roll of the brown paper 24" wide (the kind for wrapping packages). I make my own paper liners up ahead of time and when I change the cat litter box (which I do 3 times a week) I just have to remove the trash bag with all the contents and tie it closed for disposing.
Can you explain how you fashion the bags please in more detail? Thank you! Diana
Great idea. I'm going to share this idea with my class of 5th graders. This is something they can do to make a difference. Thanks.
We re-use the bag that the pet food comes in. It's multi-layered, and can hold several "cleanings".
Now bury the bag in a flower bed in the back yard, and you'll improve the soil by leaps and bounds!
What about using newspaper? If you want it in a bag shape, you can make it into one of those origami paper cups like I learned to make in Girl Scouts, or just put the litter in the middle, and fold several times. Then you don't have to buy paper bags.
I wouldn't bury it in the garden, though. I have read that you should not use feces from carnivores (cats, dogs, etc.) as fertilizer because of the bacteria (this is, of course, if you want to eat veggies grown in your garden; I suppose it wouldn't matter with flowers.) Too bad-- I have one dog and 5 cats; it would sure be lots of free fertilizer. :D
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I use the breeze litter system and I would not go back to a regular litter box again. Type it in on the internet and it will bring it right up. It is also sold at Wal-mart. Check it out. You will love it
Thanks for starting this discussion! I have 6 strictly-indoor cats, & 8 litter boxes for them. Tried using clay litter for the 1st time, & learned that what's scooped out shouldn't be composted (except perhaps for a flower garden). Then went back to scoopable litter. I use plastic grocery bags, so have 7-10 of them per week to get rid of.
Rhe grocery tupe plastic bags DO break fown in the dump!
Winco uses paper bag for groceries! Unless you bring your own paper is all they have available. I have been using them to take out my recycling but now that I know you can compost kitty litter and pet waste, I plan on using them for that!
Thank You for ALL THE HELPFUL TIPS & ADVICE! GREATLY APPRECIATED!
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