No Fires

[hughnique]

Having had a major clear out over the past couple of months and disposing of anything useful at the charity depot, I am left with a few sacks of personal paperwork, which I was intending to burn, and set out to buy a garden incinerator. Think again evidently someone has banned them so what are you supposed to do with all this stuff. I do have a paper shredder but it will take an age and probably knacker the machine.

[Quiksilver]

I should think you'd buy a metal dustbin, drill a few holes in the sides, wait until the wind is blowing in an innocuous direction and break the law for all of 10 minutes If it's as soggy where you are as it is here, it's not as though you'd be risking a major field or forest fire!

[Hotrodder]

We shred ours and use it for firelighters. Probably no good for people with central heating though. Someone gave us an old oil tank years ago. I cut it in half. One half makes a decent size fire pit for the garden (It's a BBQ your honour.) The other half was treated to a pair of ride-on mower wheels and a tow coupling to make a very sturdy garden trailer. I think the term is "upcycling", and it doesn't give you a sore butt.

[Polarengineer]

Save your Christmas candle butts, melt them down in an old saucepan and fill egg box cones with shredded paper and wood shavings with the melted wax. Voilà, fire lighters par ex.

[Antonia]

I recycle most of mine. I tear off the identifying details ( names, addresses, account numbers etc ) then shove the rest in box. The remaining bits get burnt in the fire.

[Blaze]

All non-velum paper gets saved and used as fire lightings, along with the fir cones we collect during the summer.

We very occasionally broke the law in our old place as we had no neighbours and were surrounded by forest. Both of us have previously done fire-fighting courses so took every precaution - and we had the open space to do it safely.

[L Austin France]

We very occasionally broke the law in our old place as we had no neighbours and were surrounded by forest. Both of us have previously done fire-fighting courses so took every precaution - and we had the open space do do it safely.

Says a lady called 'Blaze'

[Blaze]

Hadn't thought of that, LAF !!
Blaze was one of our beloved Border Collies .....

[Hotrodder]

LAF is on fire this morning!

[Quiksilver]

The rubbish disposal changes will be implemented here next year. Not a problem for us as very, very little food waste thanks to the chickens, there's a good recycling scheme already in place with a fortnightly collection and I take care of the garden waste with composting and a couple of bonfires a year. BUT....I often wonder what happens to the 'unmentionables' produced by elderly people and young mothers. I suppose 'green' young mums might have gone back to washable nappies, but how are old people and carers supposed to dispose of all the nasties which accompany ageing and ill health? Whether they live rurally and have fosses or they're on mains drainage, neither is an option. In our commune, we've been told to save up our black bin bags until the wheelie bin is full, to minimise the number of collections required. Can you imagine the sanitary/odour problems that that will cause, especially in the summer? Do the powers that be ever really think things through?