How to Dispose Cat Litter?

Cat litter refers to a magical substance that eases life for cat owners globally. It's on the essential list of cat owners, but the most difficult task is not about having them, but the cleaning. If you are still confused about how to deal with cat litter, this blog will enlighten you.

 

How Do You Dispose Cat Litter?

The following are also tips on how to dispose cat litter:

Using trash cans is one of the most prevalent ways of cat litter disposal; it simply means that you use a trash can to do the job. It’s considered a responsible and safe way of cat litter disposal.

However, before tossing the bag filled with cat litter into the bin, you must put it in heavy-duty bags if it’s heavy. If you can’t afford heavy duty bags, you can use two of the regular disposal garbage bags.

Alternatively, you can use compostable poop bags; they provide structural support and prevents unnecessary spillage.

 

Ensure that you use different trash bags for cat litter, to ensure sanitary levels are upheld. While you can combine organic waste or use compostable bags with cat litter, this eliminates recycling of the organic waste in other uses like gardening.

Why You Should Use Green Materials for Composting

Compost piles should have equal parts of greens to browns. Brown components provide carbon for the compost, while the green ones provide nitrogen; water from this nitrogen offers moisture that breaks down organic matter. Avoid using milk and meat products since animals or your pets could try and dig them up from the compost. Additionally, never use dead garden plants since they spread those diseases back into your garden later when you use your compost. Ideally, green compost is much safer and healthier than other compost types.  

• Alternatives for Green Compost

Basically, cat litter comprises of strip-mined clay; it may have toxic components such as silica dust. Such components aren’t compostable or biodegradable. However, there are other alternatives that you can use other than green composting. These alternatives use post-consumer products that are all-natural and recycled. They include:

• Recycled newspapers

Newspapers are brown composting components; they must be offset using green composting material. Ensure that you put equal amounts of green material and shredded newspapers in the compost pile. There’s a concern about the effects of using newspaper compost because of the inks used in them.

However, newspapers are safe to use in composting. Newspapers break down slowly since they have high lignin contents, and it’s very resistant to composting. Put 2-4 newspaper layers over green compost; hold them in place using 3-4 inch layers of collected straw, grass clippings, or leaves.

• Wood shavings

You can compost wood shavings from untreated wood such as ash, oak, and pine. Whether it’s shavings/ dust collected from workshops or felling of trees, it’s a good alternative to green composting.

Turn the wood shavings from the center of the compost to the outside and vice versa. In approximately 3 months, the green materials and wood chips will have decomposed into the finished product. Wood shavings compost quickly in summer since the center of the compost gets very hot. Don’t turn the compost in winter.

• Vegetable or grass base

Get old vegetable plants once their growing season is over. However, ensure that you don’t use diseased plants in the compost; they should be burnt or discarded. Collect all the vegetable scraps and put them in the composting area. Lay down a layer of twigs or wood chips, and turn the pile from time to time. It will be ready in about three months.

• Wheat

You can compost wheat but the compost must be carefully managed to avoid creating a terrible smelly mess. You can compost wheat in vermicomposters, bins, or piles at home. The compost should be managed with enough carbon.

Wheat compost is prepared using barn waste that consists of wheat or straw bedding and horse manure. You mix them in a 3:4 proportion. The compost is ready in approximately 3-4months.

• Plain sawdust

Plain sawdust is also a good alternative to green composting. However, it can be hard to get sawdust in urban settings. If you decide to add sawdust to your compost, you must also add nitrogen since sawdust has very high carbon levels. To ensure safety, don’t use sawdust from treated trees.

• Cedarific cat litter

It’s a combination of cedar chips and hardwood, without any silica dust or clay components. When composting cat litter, you need to exercise caution because of risks associated with potential pathogens found in cats that consume rodents and birds. Therefore, if your composting ceradific cat litter, always put on gloves and clean your hands thoroughly with soap and running water when through.

• Whole-kernel corn

You can shred corn husks into tiny pieces or use them without shredding. You should turn the pile from time to time to allow air circulation which quickens decomposition. Use a shovel or spading fork to turn and lift the compost pile at least twice a month. You can compost corn kernels, the cob itself, and the leaves. Corn kernels decompose quickly but the husks can take a longer time since its very dry and the cobs take even a longer time.

Give pets a healthy and green care

The best way to care for your pets is to ensure that the environment they live in is safe and makes them feel secure. Pets are highly sensitive animals that even the slightest discomfort can give them depression.

 

For their green well-being, ensure that your outdoors is free from any toxic substances that could be fat to your pets. Get rid of anything that your pets could eat or swallow in your absence. For instance, small plastic or metal parts, or insecticides, have proven to be fatal to many pets. In general, ensure that the surrounding is safe, even in instances where your pets have to be left on their own.