Welcome

Poo Free Parks™ is a Denver, Colorado organization designed to help solve three problems:

Problem #1: Dog poo in Denver's parks and waterways

Problem #2: Reduce the demand for non-biodegradable plastic bags

Problem #3: Provide jobs to Denver’s rehabilitated homeless and to residents at battered women's shelters

Poo Free Parks™ has created a privately-funded, “green” program that addresses each of these three problems simultaneously, and does so at absolutely no cost to the public.

Click here to download a pdf map of the Poo Free Parks in Denver.

The Current Situation

Every day, thousands of Denver dog owners take their “best friends” to parks around the city, but often their pet waste is not properly disposed, causing an ever increasing infusion of toxic bacterial waste in our parks and waterways. The Department of environmental Health has described their investigation during a television interview with NBC's 9News:

Current methods for dealing with this problem are ineffective for a number of reasons, including:

Existing dispensers are typically made of industrial plastic or cut-open milk jugs, both of which are unsightly and deteriorate quickly
The dispensers are hard to locate and often misused as receptacles rather than supply stations, ending up filled with rubbish and feces
Local residents are relied on to supply existing dispensers, leading to a unreliable and inconsistent supply
We as taxpayers are responsible for their maintenance
When they do have bags, they are non-biodegradable plastic bags, which create a huge ecological burden for our planet, loading up landfills and oceans, and taking 1000 years to decompose.

The Solution

Poo Free Parks™ will install 100% recyclable aluminum Poo Bag Dispensers throughout Denver parks. These dispensers will be supplied with 100% biodegradable plastic Pet Poo Bags, specifically designed to biodegrade within 18 months. The Poo Free Parks™ Program will help to:

Clean up dog feces in Denver’s parks, waterways, and walkways, making our City a more enjoyable and cleaner place to live and play
Remind pet owners of their responsibility to clean up after their pets
Improve water quality in our rivers, streams, and lakes by reducing the amount of pet waste currently draining into them
Reduce the demand for harmful plastics polluting our environment by supplying only 100% biodegradable bags
Save the City more than $100,000 every year by delegating pet waste tasks to a private entity, while at the same time improving the condition of our parks.

Poo Free Parks™ is good for our City, our parks, our planet and our people!