Anyone have any thoughts on how to address this situation? My upstairs neighbor and I share the trash bin. Everyday he puts the little dog poo bag in it. When the trash is picked up all the little bags stay on the bottom and never make it in the garbage truck. The neighbor is easily annoyed so I'd rather not get into a ruff with him. Ideas?
Take bags out, layer of kitty litter in trash bin should stop them sticking.
New layer after it is emptied.
Scented litter could even be used too
@Greywolf I think you're right, between the bags individually not weighing much and the plastic sticks to the plastic especially when warm.
It should work if the garbage collector empties the bin and doesn't just pull out the bagged garbage leaving the poop behind anyway 😬
@SPFX Newspaper sheets placed in the bottom of the bin, so the poo bags don't stick?
Or a smaller bin with a liner placed next to the main one, label it the "dog poo bin". Then, before the garbage is picked up each week, just move the poo bin bag over to the main bin?
I'm a non confrontational person my nature so I wouldn't want to go head to head with a cranky neighbor either.
@mushrj Right!? That's what I'd do if I had a dog.
@SPFX are these cans that get dumped out by a sanitation worker? I work streets and sanitation for Chicago. So we have big garbage cans that we put on flippers and the trash gets dumped into our hopper while the can stays on the flipper. If it's that simple where you're at, then I feel kitty litter is the best option. Depending on your cans, a garbage bag might not be big enough.
@grdhdz Our sanitation workers dump by hand as they walk along. I also am embarrassed to leave it like that for them. Like I'm sure they have enough shit to deal with let alone the real deal. I wish my neighbor had the awareness to do something like I set up. I use pellet litter for kitties so poop goes into a bag knotted and then put it in sealed lined bin, in the house, then I take it out on garbage night all wrapped up together. No smell, no flies or grossness. smh
@SPFX but yeah, poop bags are the fucking worst. Sometimes they don't make it into the hopper and just fall out stay on the lip of the hopper.
I have a dog as well, so I'm kind of my own enemy.
@SPFX Trash can liner?
@SPFX Apply some sort of lining to the bottom of the inside of the trash can that dog shit won't stick to. You could tape it down so it won't fall out.