Burning junk on a woodburner

[treequip]

You may well be able to burn some of these nasties without ruining your flue or stove but you will be releasing a lot of pollutants into the atmosphere for all of us to breath. When this sort of material is burnt in incinerators for electrical plants the temperatures are a lot higher and I think the exiting gases are filtered to avoid atmospheric pollution.

 

In good "convince myself" style I tell myself that anything I put on the burner is a good thing because I am saving the world from the use of fossil fuels involved in getting it to the recycling centre processing and doing god knows what to it, in good "convince myself and crack on with it" style I am going to declare "its a grey area"

[Woodworks]

In good "convince myself" style I tell myself that anything I put on the burner is a good thing because I am saving the world from the use of fossil fuels involved in getting it to the recycling centre processing and doing god knows what to it

 

But the recycling lorry is going to drive past your door anyway.

[treequip]

But the recycling lorry is going to drive past your door anyway.

 

Ahhh yes, but convince myself says the extra weight would make a difference, also my authority made us have 2 extra wheelie bins under penalty of law and then had the cheek to tell us what sort of stuff we could or more significantly COULDNT put in the plastics bin. If you are recycling recycle it all not just the easy stuff to tick a box in government targets

[Alycidon]

My council had a bin for cardboard and garden waste, now they want teh cardboard broken down into bits no bigger than a Cornflakes box and put into a small baskit similar to that used for plastics. So big boxes go straight to Landfill now, I even had a silver cooking paper cardbaord center left behind last week, to big !!.

 

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[difflock]

Our bin goes out the lane about once every 6 to 8 weeks.

Compostable gets composted.

food scraps get eaten by der dogs.

cardboard and clean paper gets burned.

All bank & credit card statements get burned in the stove regardless.

Metal goes to "T" Met occassionally (price dependant)

Actually most of the bin contents are not entirely strictly speaking household waste.

An we still pay stupid high rates.

[likeitorlumpit]

Best not to burn chipboard etc. Glued wood. Releases all sorts of nasties. You would think they'd not be allowed to make stuff that could be this toxic on combustion wouldn't you.

[openspaceman]

I would avoid Wavin sewer pipe though.

The fumes from it, as I have reason to know, are pretty toxic.

 

 

I think perforated drainage pipe is PVC, at low temperatures the chlorine will combine with partially oxidised carbon rings to form dioxins.

 

Get the temperature really high and then quench fast and you'll end up with hydrogen chloride which will grab a few water molecules to make hydrochloric acid.

[finny]

Can see the temptation, free heat and a good roar.. but come on guys.. It's not the neighbours breathing it in you need to worry about, up in smoke maybe, but down in particulate in within a matter a metres from your flue. You, your kids, everyone willbe breathing all manner of toxins in.

The earth is a great sink for this stuff.. the air is not.. compost don't burn.

Anyone in the wood trade should be setting a good example, stricter clean acts are just around the corner either way ;-(

[growforest]

We haven't put the bin out in about four years. Councils should give discounts for us wood-and-waste burners. Don't buy any plastic, but everything that will fit in the front of the stove gets burned. It's free heat and hot water. So long as you don't put nasties on, it's a great way to get rid of rubbish. (No painted stuff, no glued boards, no plastics etc) As China is currently producing about 6,000 million tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, you do wonder to some extent what's the point.

[difflock]

PS

Some of the China being imported from China, is fired with our toxic unwanted tyres.

The dammned cunning Chinese have figgered out how to get them to burn, apparently.

PPS

Hats off to the guy who invented the term "co-mingled" for mixed "recylables"