Burning household waste.

BattleCorp

I am guessing that burning domestic household rubbish is illegal without a waste incinerator licence or some other form of permit.

What laws (if any) would be broken if someone were to burn a small amount of personal household waste, in a chiminea for example?

Pro Hoc Vice

BattleCorp wrote: »

I am guessing that burning domestic household rubbish is illegal without a waste incinerator licence or some other form of permit.

What laws (if any) would be broken if someone were to burn a small amount of personal household waste, in a chiminea for example?

Google is amazing http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/environment/waste_management_and_recycling/burning_household_waste.html

BattleCorp

So a chiminea is not a waste burner, but it's illegal to burn waste in it, is that correct?

Carawaystick

I don't think you can burn waste, but if you were to burn fuel in the chiminea, well that's different.

BattleCorp

Carawaystick wrote: »

I don't think you can burn waste, but if you were to burn fuel in the chiminea, well that's different.

That's what I'm getting at. I'm pretty sure that there isn't an allowable list of fuel for a chiminea. Surely you could use whatever would burn as fuel?

Pro Hoc Vice

BattleCorp wrote: »

That's what I'm getting at. I'm pretty sure that there isn't an allowable list of fuel for a chiminea. Surely you could use whatever would burn as fuel?

The method you use to burn waste does not make an illegal act legal. Lighting a match is legal setting fire to waste with that legal match does not suddenly make it legal.

dutchkev

Okay so burning of waste is illegal. Can I be pandantic about the definition of waste. I could burn some coal, but if I didn't want the coal and was going to throw it out is it now waste ? Or is something bought as a fuel always a fuel. ?

NUTLEY BOY

Here is a link to DunLaoghaire-Rathdown Co Co about the subject of burning of waste. It has links to the regulations.

link http://dlrcoco.ie/aboutus/councildepartments/wasteservices/reportit/burningofwaste/

foggy_lad

dutchkev wrote: »

Okay so burning of waste is illegal. Can I be pandantic about the definition of waste. I could burn some coal, but if I didn't want the coal and was going to throw it out is it now waste ? Or is something bought as a fuel always a fuel. ?

Household waste only becomes fuel when collected and incinerated in the normal way at very high temperatures. It does not become fuel just to facilitate back yard burners

Alun

foggy_lad wrote: »

Household waste only becomes fuel when collected and incinerated in the normal way at very high temperatures. It does not become fuel just to facilitate back yard burners

True, and I'd bet that the very same people trying to bend the rules to burn all manner of household refuse in their own back gardens would be amongst the first to object if a proper incinerator were to be built anywhere near them.

Pro Hoc Vice

Alun wrote: »

True, and I'd bet that the very same people trying to bend the rules to burn all manner of household refuse in their own back gardens would be amongst the first to object if a proper incinerator were to be built anywhere near them.

So true.

Carawaystick

foggy_lad wrote: »

Household waste only becomes fuel when collected and incinerated in the normal way at very high temperatures. It does not become fuel just to facilitate back yard burners

Is the debris left on the floor from a bale of briquettes, fuel or waste?
Is a burnt out match allowed to be thrown into a fire? The regs suggest it's waste and should be put back into the match box to grind the gears of the right thinking members of society...

GerardKeating

BattleCorp wrote: »

That's what I'm getting at. I'm pretty sure that there isn't an allowable list of fuel for a chiminea. Surely you could use whatever would burn as fuel?

Depends, you might make a very good case, that old newspapers/card board packaging was a legitimate fuel.

You might not be so successfully making the case for soiled nappies and plastic bottles.