I am trying to be environmentally friendly and recycle most household rubbish - I have just purchased a PAPER BRIQUETTE MAKER, to recycle my newspapers, and hopefully use in the summer for the fire pit etc., When I received it, it mentions at the bottom of the instruction manual, that it is not LEGAL everywhere to burn these briquettes, and to check with our local council!!!
Apart from wanting to know if its worth all the hastle, is it legal, has anyone come up against this? I am rather cross about the whole thing at the moment.
2007-02-26 03:01:18 · 11 answers · asked by SUPER-GLITCH 6 in Environment
I cannot see how burning paper is environmentally friendly. Why not send it for re-pulping
2007-02-27 20:33:47 · answer #1 · answered by Professor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some councils only allow smokeless fuels to be burnt (special briquettes etc). These tend to be city councils and the idea is to prevent smogs etc following the Clean Air Act (1993). Out in the country it's not usually a problem and if you are able to burn coal etc then you have nothing to worry about.
2007-02-26 03:50:35 · answer #2 · answered by Rickolish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing the Green aspect of your thinking comes from the fact that you'll burn less wood if you burn the briquettes instead. Whatever you do someone somewhere will tell you you shouldn't be doing it!!! so just go ahead and do what's right for you
2007-02-26 03:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by spikles00 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most localities have regulations against burning trash.
A better question is why do you think it green to burn the paper rather than recycling it? Burning it puts all that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, where recycling it put almost no carbon into the air.
2007-02-26 03:07:41 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but burning it really isn't that green anyway. OK it saves you burning something else like fossil fuels, but you're still chucking loads of carbon dioxide into the air.....global warming and all that.... better to just recycle the paper, surely?
2007-02-26 04:02:15 · answer #5 · answered by Turtle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good on you for going green.
Where i live there it used to be a smoke free town ( Essex U.K.)and no one could have any open fires, bonfires etc.
Now they have started to change it where you can have fires and bonfires.
They could have just put in the instructions this so that it covers themselves if you live in a smoke free town.
Hope this helps you.
Keep up the good work with helping the environment.
2007-02-26 03:15:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure that your chimmey has a fine screen on it so that a piece of paper that is burning gets sucked out on to some other house.
2007-02-26 03:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when they say it might not be legal everywhere it means check with your council if you are in a smokeless fuel area. if you are then you cant burn these briquettes in your fireplace. i used them before i had central heating installed but we are not in a smokeless fuel area.
2007-02-26 03:08:16 · answer #8 · answered by val f1 nutter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lots of people do things that are technically ilegal (far worse than this) but they get away with it because there are too many people in the UK to keep an eye on; just do it, as its environmentally friendly.
2007-02-26 03:12:48 · answer #9 · answered by pstzqueen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not tried it, but heard about it and who is to know you are doing this anyway if you don't tell anyone. I cant see its doing anyone else any harm.
2007-02-26 03:07:29 · answer #10 · answered by sm80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋