The Trash Terrorist has become a kind of urban recent archaeologist. For example, as you find a higher density of takeout containers, you will find you are approaching an intersection with multiple convenience or fast food outlets. Near schools, you find a lot of disposable vape tubes, and the refills for vapes. Pretty much everywhere you find cigarette butts. (When you are a smoker, the world is your ashtray.)
And then there are the small, knotted up, plastic bags, with lumps in the bottom of them. These are the bags that dog owners take along, dutifully scoop up after Rover has done his business--and then immediately discard.
Look, tosh, if that's what you are going to do, you might as well not bag it. Canine excrement may be messy and a minor health hazard for a brief time, but it degrades. Plastic bags don't. And, in fact, they prevent the "processed food" from biodegrading as well, unless dealt with.
So, what do you do with the bagged "business"? Well, you can carry it until you get to the next garbage can, and chuck it in, but that still puts both bag and poop into the landfill, where the bag breaks down into microplastics, and the poop produces a lot of methane. Best solution is to take it home, and empty the bag into the toilet. DO NOT FLUSH THE BAG, even if it says green: that's simply a marketing term and unless you *KNOW* that the bag is actually made of polyvinyl alcohol film (and nothing else), it's probably going to end up clogging the sewage pipes.
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