Originally Posted by
Brandon Weiss
Speaking of flawed and nonsense.....
Catalytic converters, believe it or not, do not make the vehicle pollution free. The trucks will run, yes, but how many trips will they make if everyone throws their plywood out instead of burning it? If everyone throws their stuff away instead of burning what they can will the environmental impact of the disposal be less than burning even if the added disposal means more trucks have to run more trips and more land fills fill up faster requiring more landfills to be created (along with the emissions created by the trucks/tractors required to create the landfill)? Even still, I would be willing to be that more stuff is burned by the disposal companies than you think. Just because they haul it away from you doesn't mean they don't burn it. I agree that maybe you don't want to breathe the burning fumes of plywood and MDF on a constant basis for many many years. I'd even go so conservative as to say don't burn it in your wood stove that heats your shop. But I don't think it's going to do any harm to burn your plywood and MDF scraps in your fire pit. I live in the valley of the sun so we don't burn stuff unless we have to. It's hot enough here already, don't need to add any more warmth. But if I lived in an area that justified burning for warmth or trash disposal I would without reservation.