Live rural and able to burn papers, really cuts down on the trash and don’t have to worry about personal info getting scarfed.
Do not burn tires or anything nasty.
Just curious how many of us enjoy this ability.
Also dig this song by Southern Culture on The Skids;
My Neighbor Burns Trash
Later,
Burnin’ Keith
In 1979 I moved from New Orleans to Mandeville (North of Lake Ponchartrain) —I had a burn barrel , mainly because not many private people picking up trash—- Finally after a few years I found a reliable trash man—-If I never burn trash in a barrel it will be too soon— don’t get me wrong—I still love to burn fires Limbs Etc—just no Trash
Maybe should clarify, we use a trash/recycle company.
Just have the ability to burn paper products.
No Burning Barrel, just make a pile way out back when the pile gets about 10’ in diameter grab my favorite cocktail and lite it up.
*Cost $20.00 a year for a permit and you have to call it in before you burn.
*Has to be all natural materials dead trees and leaves, no construction material or tires etc.
We can burn out here and do so every few days. Metals and glass gets taken to the recycle center about 40 miles away. Only two trash companies out this way. One is wickedly expensive, a tad over $30 a month. The second one is hit and miss, you are never quite sure when they are going to show up. I mean they will show up eventually but, by that time all the critters will have your trash scattered all over the place.
We can burn, dependant upon what county restrictions there may be because of wildfire danger. However, we compost as much “trash” as we can and sort what is recyclable: glass, metals, cardboard, paper, fabrics, plastics {#1 & #2 in one bin and the others which are iffy separated}. We have to haul trash and recyclables ourselves as we are too far off the beaten track. Metals I sell at the scrap collector. Being somewhat remote on a winding narrow road is another reason we compost and recycle as much as we can because that reduces the real trash to a small amount that is easily transferred.
Mostly we just burn slash from tree cutting, thinning and trimming. I don’t like burning paper as it often will blow away from the fire. We shred paper that contains personal info. Shredded paper will actually decompose in a good compost mix, especially that with some animal manure. Shredded paper cannot be handled by most recycle centers though.
I have always been a little jealous of my neighbor who cut down a big maple and proceeded to burn it all (green) on top of the stump.. ( like somehow that was ever going to work ). Our neighborhood is a little classier than some and while burning is legal ? It is somewhat looked down upon especially when you're trying to get rid of numbers of large trees .It also became a rather large gathering of drunks who became a bit loud and stayed way too late.. whooping it up at times ...I fondly remember going out one day and seeing someone pouring gas on a smoldering fire to try to get it going again .. All things end and the trees eventually disappeared and the party seemed to move onto another fire pit . The upside was I unloaded a pile of branches I'd been collecting for years and burnt them up in no time on one of their less rowdy fires .
Oddly we don't create that much trash or recycling material . I'm always amazed at the massive amounts others seem to have .
atlanta metro area - you cannot even burn fall leaves…
Canada decided that any stove without a new CSA approved stamp on it needed to be replaced or you wouldn't be able to get insurance . That meant a 150 year old franklin free standing cast iron stove and a 100+ year old cook stove both needed to be replaced .Hopefully we will find some nice NEW Chinese stove made of pot metal, plastic,lead paint and dung from a YAk .
The brand new very expensive life preservers just purchased that are US Coast Guard approved aren't any good either. But 11$ Chinese garbage is ok because it has the right sticker .
A quick $12,000.00 worth of beautiful antiques need to be tossed in the lake ...and another $8,000 to replace them with something tacky .
God bless the stupidity these governments impose on us all .
Man I am sorry to hear that; a sad state of affairs indeed.
In Detroit we burn only on Devils Night…… 
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That is a real bummer. Your stoves should be grandfathered in you would think. Hope we are not next with that rule.
The daily burn of classified material circa Oct 1990 somewhere northwest of Al Jubayl Saudi Arabia.
My mother’s side of the famly is from WV, there is a burn barrel behind every house down in those hollers.
When I lived in rural Virginia, I used to burn paper wood and cardboard, downed tree limbs etc… but never plastics. My jerk neighbor was too cheap to pay for trash pickup, and too lazy to drive 3 miles to the free trash drop off area where they had a compactor. He’d burn his trash, and stink up the entire area.
She said I got a pack of matches and pile of leaves.
Three bags of garbage and some gasoline.
Got a plastic jug and some cellophane.
Burn anything that can’t runaway
My neighbor burns trash - The Kudzu Ranch
I remember when we lived in Cucamonga(now “RANCHO” Cucamonga), Southern California, we had an incinerator. Hell, every house in the whole development had one.
This is ancient history of course. Now in a different situation, we have a burnpile after giving up on the burnbarrel. It was inefficient and lasted one/two season at most. We definitely have restrictions as to when you can burn and no toxic/noxious items.
My COPD has let our burnpile exceed our wishes, like with two Xmas trees in there.