Motocrotte

The motocrotte , also called caninette is a small motorized machine intended to clean the canine dejections in the cities. It is controlled by a motocrottor . The motocrottes were installation for the first time by the Mairie of Paris, Jacques Chirac being mayor.

These motor bikes were Yamaha XT 600, strongly modified, with a clean water container, a container intended to collect the dejections and a vacuum cleaner located beside the nose gear wheel.

The idea of these machines was to constitute a fast deterrent force , making it possible to traverse long distances from pavements in a minimum of time to carry out a quite specific action there.

After several years of operation, the project was abandoned.

Alternative solutions

the canisette : U-shaped space, beside the pavements, reserved with the dogs.
penalization of the owners of dogs
distributers of plastic bags (but the bio-degradadibility of the plastic bag being bad, it is not a good solution).

External bonds

http://www.institutdetouraine.org/mbazin/motocrottes/page1.htm
http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/fle/DUDLA_2001/GROUPE1/FRED/fred.html
http://www.puteaux.fr/index.php?id=40
http://www.issoire.fr/fr/html/environnement/proprete.php?image=imageEnvironnementOn

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