Now Accepting Donations: Your Local Dog Cleanup Station

Now Accepting Donations: Your Local Dog Cleanup StationPhoto: Camden Avery/Hoodline
Camden Avery
Published on March 30, 2014
The Haight still has only one dog waste cleanup station, the one installed last summer by Kent Uyehara in front of FTC Skate. And it needs more bags.

The bag station cost around $130 to install, and while Uyehara happily covered the cost of installation, it also requires some upkeep to stay full of bags, and he's looking to his neighbors for a little help.

We're still slated to get some more dispensers before long, but the city's been quiet on exactly when we can expect to see those.

Based on the comments generated by the news of the station's installation and the news that the city plans for more, we're guessing you all would like to make sure there are always bags out there, too. That's right: the problem with the dog waste bag dispensers isn't that people aren't using them, as conjectured, but that people are taking all of them at once.

Said Uyehara in an email, "It seems our customers like to take ALL of the bags which I take as a good thing meaning they realize the necessity of cleaning up after their dogs. However, by taking entire 100 bag packs at one time it leaves the dispenser often empty. So please invite our neighbors to simply stuff the metal dispenser with their donated used plastic bags."

So next time you're coming home from the store, save that tomato bag to repurpose for the neighborhood good.