Sorry if it’s taboo, but let’s talk about poop. Specifically: dog poop. Think about how many little baggies full of it fill your trash can by pick up day. Now multiply that by every dog in your neighborhood, your city, your entire state. That’s a lot of poop, isn’t it?
Stephanie Chow, founder and owner of “Pet Poo Skiddoo,” certainly thinks so. That’s why the Asheville, North Carolina-based company is collecting this waste… for a very good [environmentally friendly] reason.
A sobering fact on the company’s website reads:
“The average dog discards approximately 275 pounds per year, and with 90 million dogs in the U.S., that’s over 20 billion pounds of dog waste that either ends up in the landfill or left to rot in the backyard.”
As Asheville’s only pet waste removal company, Pet Poo Skiddoo scoops up dog waste for its residential clients, then composts what they collect. Every month, they turn thousands of pounds of dog waste into fertilizer.
Chow launched the company in 2015, confident this was the solution to pounds and pounds of dog poop getting hauled and dumped into local landfills.
“Knowing landfills were already being inundated with thousands of pounds of methane-producing garbage on a daily basis, there had to be a way to make dog waste one less contributor.”
With this business model, dog poop goes back into the ground to fertilize, instead of pointlessly piling up (pun intended) in landfills. Plus, the company manages the “poop minefield” in your backyard so you don’t have to.
‘Skidoo’s Evolution Since 2015
In the beginning, Chow bought an Earth Cube from Green Mountain Technologies. These cubes usually compost food waste. This one, though, Chow used to test out different formulas until she had a healthy and consistent fertilizer containing high levels of nutrients and low levels of bacteria.
Today, Pet Poo Skiddoo has a private facility in Black Mountain where the composting happens. As they continue building more relationships with residents and even businesses, more dog poop becomes productive!
“Now with our eyes on commercial properties, we hope to go from composting thousands of pounds to tens of thousands of pounds of dog waste within the next year.”
Skyland Exchange Apartments, the company’s first commercial client, currently has 100% compostable dispenser bags and liners at each of its pet waste stations. Bags are changed out twice per week for composting.
Hopefully, this creative and sustainable practice becomes more common!
H/T: ABC13 News
Featured Image: Ryan Mandelbaum via Flickr
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