What is the limit on burning rubbish?

Frank the Manc

I burn all our household rubbish and general waste in a fire at the bottom of my back yard about once every 2 weeks or so but lately ive noticed we have been getting throught a bit more waste and find myself having to burn rubbish about once every week.
Is there a limit on the max amout of waste you can burn at home?
What is the best way to incinerate it? Ive been lighting my fires in a corner i made from dry blocks using a drop of parafin oil for ignition. Ive heard of fellas using large ex oil tanks mounted uprite as an incinerator. What is the most effective method?

heyjude

Frank the Manc wrote: »

I burn all our household rubbish and general waste in a fire at the bottom of my back yard about once every 2 weeks or so but lately ive noticed we have been getting throught a bit more waste and find myself having to burn rubbish about once every week.
Is there a limit on the max amout of waste you can burn at home?
What is the best way to incinerate it? Ive been lighting my fires in a corner i made from dry blocks using a drop of parafin oil for ignition. Ive heard of fellas using large ex oil tanks mounted uprite as an incinerator. What is the most effective method?

The limit is zero, apparently the burning of any household rubbish or waste is illegal under the Waste Management Act 1996 see http://www.corkcorp.ie/news/archivednews2005/mainbody,5506,en.html

robtri

absolute zero, burning rubbish at home is very harmful to the enviroment, I believe that down here in waterford they have a spotter helicoptor that flies around looking for exactly this type of activity every now and again.

Pgibson

robtri wrote: »

absolute zero, burning rubbish at home is very harmful to the enviroment, I believe that down here in waterford they have a spotter helicoptor that flies around looking for exactly this type of activity every now and again.

Helicopters BURN, BURN, BURN fuel at a furious rate.

Its the people who commission a helicopter to prowl around like that who should be burned.

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Harpz

The main issue is with dioxins, apparently a large percentage of the dioxins are attributed to low temperature back yard burning. Dioxins are fairly nasty are carcinogens. Google back yard burning and/or dioxins for more information

Oldtree

Mayo says NO too, see here:

"Illegal Activities: Backyard Burning"

http://www.mayococo.ie/en/Services/Environment/ComplaintsandEnforcement/IllegalActivities/BackyardBurning/

mrgaa1

Build yourself a chimney in your garden and burn stuff then.

Pgibson

mrgaa1 wrote: »

Build yourself a chimney in your garden and burn stuff then.

The funny thing is, if you burn it in your grate indoors it is NOT illegal.

The chimney on your gable end is in the garden if the gable end is in the garden.

The law,as always,is an ass.

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Oldtree

Just because the law is an ass does not mean that you would have to follow suit. It would be difficult to ban burning plastic indoors as it comes as a byproduct from the petrochenical industry, when it is ok to burn coal.

Do your bit for the environment........ its not much to ask, and I would not ask you to do more than you are willing/able to do. Every little bit counts, no matter how small.

Pgibson

Anyone notice the power consumption of a hideous "Glass Tree" that Dublin corporation has just erected.

Its made of 100,000 lightbulbs.

At 20 Watts each thats 2 Megawatts power consumption.

Talk about burning waste.

Then they insult our intelligence by calling it "Eco friendly" because the bulbs are CFL.

Ireland thy name is Hypocracy.

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Oldtree

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

wasters

probe

Harpz wrote: »

The main issue is with dioxins, apparently a large percentage of the dioxins are attributed to low temperature back yard burning. Dioxins are fairly nasty are carcinogens. Google back yard burning and/or dioxins for more information

Whether or not you cause dioxin emissions when burning depends on what you burn. The only way to generate dioxin emissions is to burn chlorine or substances containing chlorine (eg PVC and things that have been bleached with chlorine) at temperatures < 800 C. Incineration at over 800 C destroys dioxins.

If something is not economically physically recyclable, the best way of disposal is often to incinerate it in a controlled environment - ideally using a system that delivers the energy produced into a communal heat and power system.

Burning non Cl stuff in the garden is a waste of energy, and probably causes problems for people in the area who suffer from respiratory problems.

There is no excuse for landfilling waste (given the potent greenhouse gas emissions, impact on the water table, vermin, noxious odours, NIMBY, etc) - aside from incinerator ash in a properly engineered landfill.

The Irish media has done a poor job in terms of educating the public on the issues of burning waste / incineration / recycling / landfill and related matters...


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carveone

Pgibson wrote: »

Anyone notice the power consumption of a hideous "Glass Tree" that Dublin corporation has just erected.

I can't find any references to the power consumption of the bulbs anywhere - did you find a web link to that somewhere? 20W seems staggeringly extreme, I can't even imagine the light output from 2MW of bulbs - I mean WTF! Couple of lenses and you could start taking out satellites :P

Then they insult our intelligence by calling it "Eco friendly" because the bulbs are CFL.

This seriously ticks me off. Firstly, people have bizarre ideas about "greenness" - there are tenants in my brothers house that run the hot water all the time, leave their computer/tv/dvd on all the time etc etc, yet the house is flipping pitch black all the time because they keep turning lights off to "be green". I'm going to kill myself on the stairs one day... Secondly, I prefer the light from an incandescent in certain circumstances - eg: in my room where I want to read. Besides, in this country, there's no such thing as wasteful house lighting. All that extra heat is used to heat the damn house!

Húrin

Frank the Manc wrote: »

I burn all our household rubbish and general waste in a fire at the bottom of my back yard about once every 2 weeks or so but lately ive noticed we have been getting throught a bit more waste and find myself having to burn rubbish about once every week.
Is there a limit on the max amout of waste you can burn at home?
What is the best way to incinerate it? Ive been lighting my fires in a corner i made from dry blocks using a drop of parafin oil for ignition. Ive heard of fellas using large ex oil tanks mounted uprite as an incinerator. What is the most effective method?

"You know you're a redneck when..."

Alun

carveone wrote: »

I can't find any references to the power consumption of the bulbs anywhere - did you find a web link to that somewhere? 20W seems staggeringly extreme, I can't even imagine the light output from 2MW of bulbs - I mean WTF! Couple of lenses and you could start taking out satellites :P

I thought that was highly unlikely too. 2MW/230V = 8,695 Amps. Imagine the extension lead you'd need to power that!

taram

Tbh my problem with these fires are that they make the area stink, and have ruined a number of evenings when I've been out in my garden. That and I dislike breathing in dixons just because someone's too cheap to dispose of their rubbish normally :P