Burning trash?

[redhen]

We have to get a burn permit here.... and yep..they refuse them a lot too...

 

[debilorrah]

Quote:
I figure it's for everyones safety. We have trash pick up now. I still recycle what I can - that money helps!!!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

The safety V/S freedom quote comes to mind...

 

[mangled]

We don't have a recycling program, and I refuse to pay $57.50 every three months for pick up.

The animals get the scraps. If it doesn't get eaten, it's put on the burn pile. Stuff like glass, I rinse and toss in a can. Those and the metal cans go every few months to the scrap yard. They recycle the glass, we get a few bucks for the metal cans, and aluminum. Everything else gets burnt, with the exception of my boy's Goodnights and girl stuff. That I toss in the neighbor's trash. He gets free eggs, so it works out.

They do have an annual clean-up day, where you can take stuff to a designated place for free disposal. We use that for everything we can't burn or cash in on, like old batteries, etc.

We have a designated burn pit away from the house. I burn about every day.



Blessings-
Em

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

$57.50 every 3 months? The people that have our county contract charge more than that for one month....

 

[itsy]

New York State burn laws .... they are VERY ANTI BURN.......

"For your health, the health of your family and your neighbors and your community's environment, the DEC and the DOH urge you to Stop Backyard Burning."

 

[speckledhen]

I'm more inclined to think it's to line the county coffers than for actual safety reasons. We know not to burn on high wind days and such. Naturally, you should use common sense when you burn trash. Permits don't make you have common sense.

 

[chickened]

If it burns I burn it, the real nasty stuff I save for a land clearing job when I burn acres of stumps and slash, what I put in the fire burns up as it burns really hot. My bad, yep.

 

[Carols Clucks]

My guy lives where there is no trash service.

Being smart and cheap, he fills the plastic bags he brings home with the packaging and plastic trash, and drops them back in the stores trash can on the next trip in...lol

 

[cameron]

Little town I live in allows burning, as long as there's no burn ban going on. The town is pretty lenient. We can burn trash, keep any critter we want, shoot small caliber firearms for pest control, blow off fireworks in the street...before 10pm, tho. It's kinda like living during the 1970s.

I only burn grass and paper products. The only exception is that I do burn my old credit cards.