A university trial will investigate if turning dog poo into compost is safe after a councillor's personal experiment.
Stroud District councillor Gill Thomas does not own a dog, but she has collected more than 750 bags of dog poo since September to compost at her house using a wormery.
A University of Gloucestershire trial will now assess the safety of different dog poo composting methods and determine if it can be used to grow flowers and vegetables.
"I would ultimately love to see [the compost] on the shelves of big DIY outlets," Thomas said. "Because I have proof that it can grow things and it can be more than just poo that goes in the ground or gets burnt up in to the air."
Thomas, who is the only master composter specialising in dog poo in Gloucestershire, started an experiment after a resident made her aware of a "dog poo grot spot" near Bussage.
