How to Dispose of Cat Litter

Routine care is a regimen for your cat, especially when you have a cluster of them. Keeping a clean environment around cats is a daily care offering. Having to add a chore related to caring for any cat’s household is less fascinating. Nonetheless, you have to take responsibility for cleaning the litter box. It’s not quite easy, it’s displeasing, and litter isn’t exactly as light as a plastic box!

Cats love to feed on meals with high protein levels and some fatty content too. However, they do not digest their food rapidly. This makes them litter less often than most pets do. Nonetheless, cats are irritated by a piled litter-box whereas their compulsion is to stay clean. When considering how to dispose of cat litter, there are questions you’d like to answer. Is it healthy to touch cat droppings? Of course not. Do I have to dispose of litter daily? It depends.

Here are ‘what-to-dos’ when your cat litter needs to be disposed of. The first thing to let you dispose of litter appropriately is to discover the type of litter in use. If a litter is not compostable, the very next thing is to get some plastic trash bags ready.

What type of litter is it?

There are two main types of cat litter. There are the clumping and the non-clumping litters. Clumping litters are best disposed of in trash bags after scooping the lumps out.

Non-clumping does not contain properties to let urine and solid waste clump together. This makes them get messy than normal at times.

Most cats prefer clumping, litter. They also prefer it when the scent is not all-permeating. Waste and urine are clumped together in lumps that can easily be disposed of. Lumps make a less offensive scent to cats. Hence, the clumping type of litter is usually ideal. If it’s the non-clumping type, it might be a little bit offensive to the cat. You might get a little bit offended while disposing of the litter as well. The idea of where and how to dispose of litter is drawn from this detail of litter type.

Most cats don’t like box liners. To dispose of non-linear litter, you have to carry a litter to dump waste and for cleaning. Otherwise, you remove the liner with the waste folded in it and dispose of it. Sometimes, you may have to carry a litter box to scoop urine and droppings into a trash bag. This is to prevent the scent from gaining the air in the cat’s surroundings. Cats like their litter boxes are located in a quiet but not “cornered” location. They enjoy fresh breath and relish the breeze more than most other pets.

Cat’s litter behavior

For cats that like digging, keeping liners would not be an option. Quite many litter manufacturers recommend using two to three inches depths of litter boxes. This is to adapt to changing litter layers for some cats that defecate quite often. You may want to use three to four inches if your cats are deep scratchers. Cats who will dig to the bottom of the litter box if you use less would be caught messing with waste. You can begin with two inches to remove the replaced litter layers easily from time to time. This is for an experiment to know whether your cat loves to dig. Dispose of the layers of litter often as you can. You may tamper with the frequency by finding the ideal depth for your cat.

Using Trash bags

One of the most trusted methods of disposing of litter boxes is by scooping waste into trash bags. The best way on how to dispose of cat litter entails that there is less stress involved. It also includes that you’re not displeased from smell while doing it. Litter boxes are necessarily scooped at least once a day. So, there’s a need for enough trash bags to consign waste gathered from every scoop. Every single trash bag used per day is not left till the next one ideally. The decomposition of waste is a huge threat to hygiene.

Procedure

• Get a litter scoop to separate lumps of urine and stool in the litter
• Scoop lumps into a small and intact trash bag
• For clutter, clear all the litters. You may scoop into separate trash bags
• Seal the trash bags off by tying fast knots at the open ends
• Avoid unpleasant smell from decaying droppings. Preclude bacterial leakage out of waste too. Ensure to double the trash bag for disposing of scooped litter.
• Set distant trash can outside.
• Ensure can is installed with a tight-fitting lid. Make use of a durable heavy-duty trash bag. As the bag used in conveying the scoop gains weight, it tends to tear.

Disposing cluttered, composted litter

Common compostable litter, especially clay litter, is weighty and gets heavy soon enough. After 3-4 weeks of use of clay litter, it starts to get composted. You have to dispose of it as soon as clay starts to let oozing ordinarily.

• After scooping cat litter into a trash can
• Dispose in a trash bag and don’t it sit around.
• Avoid ever dumping used cat litter outside. This could be inimical to the neighborhood

As for the clay litter, in a rural area, you may choose the service of an incinerator. You can have a barrel for burning your trash. Clay litter does not burn well. It will rather scatter and clay clogs at the base of the pile while burning. The result from burning is that clay is neutralized by compost bio-degrading agents. Your surroundings might have been inured with lasting odor if not disposed of and burnt. Also, it can cause less safe air.

However, some bio-degradable litters may be burnable. What usually happens is a possibility of toxic release that tend to become airborne from the burning process. The best is to hire the service of waste management agents for intractable litters.

How often do you replace cat litter?

Cleaning litter twice a week is a rule-of-thumb for most clay litter boxes. However, the circumstances that warrant how frequently depend on how much waste. Clay litters are compostable and are replaced twice a week.

In some instances, cats poop more irregularly, depending on the cat’s diet. In instances like such, you may need to replace it every other day. Some times, it need not be more than once a week. If you clean the litter box daily, you might only need to change the litter as often. When litter is disposed of less than needed lumps of waste start to decompose. From clumping of litter to decomposition, the urgent response should be for replacement. Every two to three weeks clumped litter needs to be replaced.

Conclusion

Not only can litter get extremely messy after some time, but bits of cat litter dust can also be harmful. Contaminated cat feces can enter as particles in their meal and dispersed likewise in the air. It is advisable to disallow litter from accumulated lumps before disposing of. Also, avoid dumping trashed cat litter outside, it is quite unhealthy.

Resource:

https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/cat-care/