Green Charter for Lake District Holiday Cottage
Today we’re launching our Green Charter for The Larches. This means we commit ourselves to a 24 point plan to build a greener cottage and support sustainable projects and activities locally and more widely. We are asking visitors to The Larches to help us and to give us their comments on the scheme.
One innovation we’ve come up with after considering a number of options is to provide water soluble biodegradable bags for dog faeces (or ‘dog poo’), as many of our guests bring their dogs. Once filled these bags need to be rolled up tightly to exclude air and then flushed down the toilet.
It’s a small step, but a useful one for all that. We’ve been aware for years of the danger from cat and dog faeces because our neighbours’ daughter lost an eye through toxocara cati. But now we want to be more proactive. Use of the bags will result in dog waste being flushed straight into the sewage system with the bag disintegrating rapidly.
It’s been estimated that if this was done by every dog owner plastic bag accumulation in the UK could be cut by 7 million a day or by 2.55 billion a year. It’s good for the environment and good for our children. Let’s hope the idea is catching!
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