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Composting pooch poo. THAT must smell really good! (Photo: AP)

A story I found for my job at MyWire today leaves me feeling a strange mix of quivery joy and nausea. It’s about a group of upstate New Yorkers who have launched a dog-doo-composting program.

Being a dog, the idea of bins filled with weeks-old dog excrement is exciting for its olfactory value. But it’s also kind of creepy. I mean, they’re collecting dog poo! And it can’t be used for veggies and flowers, because the story says we dogs have pathogens in our poo. (Well, maybe we do, but humans probably do, too, and we don’t go around mentioning these embarrassing things about them, do we?!) So it will be used for deep fill, whatever that is.

I hope these green-minded humans have some kind of stink-containment for this pilot program. I’d hate to be a neighbor downwind. I notice that in the photo above, the woman is putting her dog’s doo in the compost bin in a bag. One can only assume this is a compostable bag. But I imagine that this program will want to cut even compostable-bag waste, and will have its share of bins that don’t require bags, where you just shovel the poo in and let it pile up, like so many corpses in medieval mass graves. (Ida tells me I am getting dark and disgusting myself right now. She is making me finish this story and get some breakfast “so you stop ranting like an idiot.” So I sign off.)

– Frank