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S.F. Company Plans to Turn Dog Poop Into Power

A Ton of Pet Waste and Food Scraps Can Produce 50 Gallons of Fuel. There are 6,500 tons of dog waste produced in the Bay Area every year. Now the city is trying to find a way to put it to good use.

April 11, 2006 — Dogs are known as man's best friend for good reason. They frolic, they play, they swim and they can go most anywhere we want them to.

There's just one thing about them that makes them just short of the perfect pet — the poop.

Much poop has to be picked up by many a dog owner, since most states have laws that say it must.

"It just seems so strange to me that we're locking this poo in these bags, and it's going to be there forever," said one San Francisco dog walker. "The bags are never going to biodegrade, and a future alien civilization that comes here to check us out will wonder, 'Why did we save all this poop?' You know, what's so precious about the dog poop?"

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