The Disposable Cat Litter Box - Convenient or Wasteful?
Before you completely write off the disposable cat litter box as a complete waste, think for a second what a convenience these can be. Basically, these are cat boxes that you use and then dispose of in their entirety. In other words, the box itself is also disposable, as are the litter contents inside.
These are definitely very handy things to have, but you should only use them occasionally as a convenience or in a pinch, such as if you're going to be gone on vacation and you don't want to have to clean the box when you get home. Or perhaps if you are taking your cat with you in the car. Alternatively, you can use a disposable box if one of your cats is ill and needs to be sequestered from the others, and you'll need to throw away the box when the cat's illness is over. Disposable boxes are useful in this regard, because you know that illness will not be retained or passed on to other cats in the household, nor will you have any danger of reinfecting a cat that has gotten over the illness.
However, these boxes are not to be used every day. They're very cost-ineffective, and they create a lot of waste that will doubtless end up in a landfill, so that they are very hard on the environment.
A better alternative than using a disposable litter box on a daily basis is to use scoopable litter. If you don't choose to use scoopable litter but you wish to "throw out the entire cat box" on a daily basis, you should instead use cat box liners with regular litter. This makes it very easy to simply dispose of an entire box's contents by simply gathering the corners of the liner together and tying into a knot, then disposing of it in the trash. You can use a mild bleach and water spray or a mild dish soap and water spray on the box itself once you remove the liner. Then dry with paper towels, to make sure the box is fresh and clean. Put another liner in the box, refill with litter, and you're ready for a new day. This gives you a fresh clean litter box with little effort and waste.
A good and cheap alternative to the liners themselves is to use sturdy garbage can liners. Many garbage can liners these days are very puncture resistant and can stand up to cats' claws in the box. Even with this puncture resistance, they are much less expensive than specialized litter box liners are, and you can therefore buy more of them for less money. One thing to take note of is that you should not buy garbage bags that are either scented or chemically treated with bug-resistant chemicals or other substances, so as not to make your cat ill. Simply buy good-quality puncture resistant garbage bags with no additives in them.
The garbage bags themselves should be large enough to be able to lay open inside of the litter bo pan. Place fresh clean litter inside the liner and then snap the top lid of it (if your box has a top) down over the liner, or in this case garbage bag, to hold it in place. This is a very easy and inexpensive way to keep a fresh clean cat box without having to dispose of the entire box.
A disposable cat litter box can be handy to keep on around in the event you have an ill cat that must be separated from other cats and who may be very contagious. Any litter receptacles he or she uses should be disposed of once the illness is over. They are also handy for vacations, so that you can simply toss the entire box out once you get home. For most other instances, however, simply either scooping litter or changing a litter box through the liner method described above is much more environmentally friendly and less expensive than buying and disposing of the entire box every time you need to change it.
Cleaning Litter Box - The Disposable Cat Litter Box - Convenient or Wasteful?
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