Updated: 12:51 p.m. ET Feb 9, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Feb 18, 2008
The green economy is targeting a new color: brown. Each year the United States' 72 million dogs produce about 274 pounds of poo per pooch. Most of it ends up in landfills, where it oozes methane, a greenhouse gas. So eco-preneurs are offering biodegradable bags and compost services as well as new technologies that turn doggie dreck into energy. "Everybody's done it on a grandiose scale with 5,000-head cattle operations," says William Brinton, president of Woods End Laboratories, an environmental-testing lab. "[This is] the same technology, just simplified."
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The green economy is targeting a new color: brown. Each year the United States' 72 million dogs produce about 274 pounds of poo per pooch. Most of it ends up in landfills, where it oozes methane, a greenhouse gas. So eco-preneurs are offering biodegradable bags and compost services as well as new technologies that turn doggie dreck into energy. "Everybody's done it on a grandiose scale with 5,000-head cattle operations," says William Brinton, president of Woods End Laboratories, an environmental-testing lab. "[This is] the same technology, just simplified."
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