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Originally Posted by Kayleigh  I am worried about the "bio-activator" I don't like using chemicals in the garden. |
I suppose that everything is a 'chemical' of some sort or another, even natural/organic products such as seaweed solution. Urine is a 'bio-activator' for composting things, as are solutions made from comfrey or nettle leaves and water. They simply accelerate the composting process, which is what I assume this 'bio activator' for the dog poo digester does. Like you I prefer not to use man-made/industrially-produced chemicals in my garden, but without knowing exactly what the constituents of this particular bio activator solution are it's hard to make a judgement.
I take your point about the flushable bags being bio-degradable; I was thinking more along the lines that putting anything extra into our sewage/water system is not great, given how much treatment it requires to then produce drinkable water again. It's bad enough that we use gallons of drinkable water to flush our own 'solid waste' away (sorry to be so graphic!), never mind adding our pets' waste products into the mix. Not only is water a scarce resource, but treating and pumping our domestic water supplies requires a huge amount of energy... So the less we are able to use the better.