More needs to be done to tackle the dog mess menace in Southport

More needs to be done to tackle the dog mess menace in Southport.

That’s what OTS readers say in a series of comments about new rules to make it harder for people to get away without picking up their dogs poo.

One reader says that more should be done though.
“It was good to learn that new stricter dog rules in the borough have been implemented.
However there is more to be done.

It is estimated that there are more than eight million dogs in the UK. Assuming that 50% of dogs do their business in public places and their owners pick it up this means that four million plastic bags are used for its disposal.

It is almost certain that a lot of these can not be recycled. This means that this huge daily input of plastic pollution needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency.

There is, of course, another linked issue that must be debated. This is ‘how is the dog poo disposedof ’.

Human excrement was sorted more than 100 years ago when huge sewage systems were put in place putting out of work the army of ‘night soil’ workers who moved it from towns and cities to the countryside.

“The low paid local authority workers who clear dog poo bins are in a way their successors and they deserve action to find ways to revolutionise the manner in which dog poo is disposed of.

In the 21st century adaption of foul waste infrastructure is a necessity to solve the dog poo challenge.”