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Dog poo is a subject that most people would prefer not to touch—literally—but it has actually become big business, with industries emerging to provide related goods and services.
As a result, it’s one in which parks and rec professionals are involved up to their necks (yucky pun intended).
America has about 83-million pet dogs that produce almost 10.6 million tons—yes, tons—of poo annually, according to Susan Freinkel, who writes about such topics. To put it in perspective, she says that 10.6-million tons would fill a line of tractor-trailers from Seattle to Boston, as calculated by one waste-removal service.