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  • #32
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    we burn all the baby's nappies and dried potato peels. they fill the bin so quick


  • #33
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    we burn all the baby's nappies and dried potato peels. they fill the bin so quick

    Only talking to the father-in-law about this yesterday!!
    He said to peel the spuds onto some newspaper, parcel it up tightly and let dry out.

    Burns great apparently:D


  • #34
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    "I save a fortune on recycling costs by..." A fortune eh? Excellent. Never spent even "a lot" on recycling myself, never mind "a fortune". What were you doing previously? Smelting aluminium on the kitchen stove?:confused:


  • #35
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Pottler wrote: »
    "I save a fortune on recycling costs by..." A fortune eh? Excellent. Never spent even "a lot" on recycling myself, never mind "a fortune". What were you doing previously? Smelting aluminium on the kitchen stove?:confused:

    I thought thd green bin automatically came with the refuse bin?


  • #36
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Op, is right to burn everything. So much food packaging can be burned. Give it another use by throwing out heat.


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  • #37
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,765 ✭✭✭flutered


    recyclebin wrote: »
    If the stingy thread has thought me anything it's that argos catalogues make good fuel for burning in the stove.
    the sunday times takes quite a bit of burning.


  • #38
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Smidge wrote: »
    Only talking to the father-in-law about this yesterday!!
    He said to peel the spuds onto some newspaper, parcel it up tightly and let dry out.

    Burns great apparently:D

    burns for ages and produces great heat too. we do it with all peels (carrot, potato, turnip and all stalks) let them dry then wrap. fire for hours:)


  • #39
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    burns for ages and produces great heat too. we do it with all peels (carrot, potato, turnip and all stalks) let them dry then wrap. fire for hours:)

    Can you use any sort of peelings?

    Onions etc?


  • #40
    PC CDROM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭PC CDROM


    I dump all my rubbish in bins at work.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    You're worse than Hitler!
    Not often the very first response wins the award! ;)


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  • #42
    areyawell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    Ye do realize that burning and inhaling plastic will more than likely give you cancer? One of the worst things ye can do, burn the cardboard, cans or whatever but recycle the plastic


  • #43
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Smidge wrote: »
    Can you use any sort of peelings?

    Onions etc?

    yes. we just chuck in the lot, i have my wife saving up her womans magazines as well. im going to make briquettes out of them soon


  • #44
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    yes. we just chuck in the lot, i have my wife saving up her womans magazines as well. im going to make briquettes out of them soon

    Tell me more:D


  • #45
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    You're only in the ha'penny place op. I save a fortune by throwing it into a ditch on the way to work


  • #46
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I throw apples from car windows.


  • #47
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    I throw apples from car windows.

    I throw them in car windows


  • #48
    Allah_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 112 ✭✭Allah_


    FanadMan wrote: »
    Beer cans burn quite well in a hot fire

    No they don't.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Allah_ wrote: »
    No they don't.
    Aluminium cans do!


  • #50
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Pretty sure it's illegal to burn your household waste.
    Plus you're putting out lots of toxic shite for the rest of us to breath, cheers.
    jessiejam wrote: »
    You're the kind of person I curse every night when I am out walking, breathing in the manky fumes from burning shoes and the like.
    Same here.
    I'd say a lot of the people doing this would probably give out shit to you for smoking a cigarette in their house, yet they're happy to poison whole neighbourhood just because they're too cheap to pay for their own waste.


  • #51
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    When I lived in a rented house with an open fire, we used to burn everything. Worst thing was a bag of prawn crackers you get free with a chinese. If you ever do it, make sure you have a poker at the ready so the flaming bag doesn't roll out onto the floor and across the room :pac:
    Open fires are great, more interesting to watch than most of the crap on telly too.


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  • #52
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Smidge wrote: »
    Tell me more:D

    Ive been making briquettes for at least 20 years.

    This yoke is the job: http://www.stovecentre.ie/product.php?id_product=179


  • #53
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Chucken wrote: »
    Ive been making briquettes for at least 20 years.

    This yoke is the job: http://www.stovecentre.ie/product.php?id_product=179

    aldi had them on sale a while ago. you can also use some washing line rope to tie around the briquettes to make them good and tight


  • #54
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    aldi had them on sale a while ago. you can also use some washing line rope to tie around the briquettes to make them good and tight


    I'm always a year ahead with them so when I get to use last years ones, they're like concrete :cool:


  • #55
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    We made a greenhouse from plastic bottles a few years ago :D

    Like this....:http://inspirationgreen.com/assets/images/Blog-Bldg-Plastic/bottle%20greenhouse.JPG


  • #56
    Lima Golf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Lima Golf


    A neighbour of mine has a CCTV camera outside his house. One night he put the bin out for collection the following morning. As he was leaving in the morning for work he noticed his bin was a little more full than it had been the night before as the lid wasn't closing. He had a look inside and saw 2 black bags of rubbish that weren't in there the night before. He goes and checks the CCTV footage and sees a female neighbour (obviously unaware of the camera) putting the 2 bags into his bin. So he knocks on her door, hands her the two bin bags of rubbish and goes "I believe these belong to you" she stood there, gob open and mortified. His CCTV system has something like a 30 or 60 day memory so he checked a few random bin days on it and she'd been at it the whole time. What a miserable bitch. I'd love to have been there to see her face when he landed the bags at her front door...

    Not really much to do with the op's question, this thread just reminded me of that story :)


  • #57
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Cheers for that lads!


  • #58
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Lima Golf wrote: »
    A neighbour of mine has a CCTV camera outside his house. One night he put the bin out for collection the following morning. As he was leaving in the morning for work he noticed his bin was a little more full than it had been the night before as the lid wasn't closing. He had a look inside and saw 2 black bags of rubbish that weren't in there the night before. He goes and checks the CCTV footage and sees a female neighbour (obviously unaware of the camera) putting the 2 bags into his bin. So he knocks on her door, hands her the two bin bags of rubbish and goes "I believe these belong to you" she stood there, gob open and mortified. His CCTV system has something like a 30 or 60 day memory so he checked a few random bin days on it and she'd been at it the whole time. What a miserable bitch. I'd love to have been there to see her face when he landed the bags at her front door...

    Not really much to do with the op's question, this thread just reminded me of that story :)

    The neck of some people :pac: That guy did right tho. Throw them back at her.

    Your story reminds me of skips tho - I have never needed to rent a skip in my life. But if the day comes I will be filling it up asap. As generally when a person rents one the whole estate sees fit to dump in it.


  • #59
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    kneemos wrote: »
    Had a few chimney fires where I used to live,another guy up the street had regular chimney fires,they just burn themselves out,cheaper than a sweep.
    Except when it burns hot enough for the wooden roof supports to combust. Chimney fires don't cause a fire in your sitting room where you can see it, they cause it in your roof, where you don't know about it until the ceiling collapses on you and your kids.


  • #60
    Wee Willy Harris
    Site Banned Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Wee Willy Harris


    by not flushing?

    by not using so many paper plates.

    By recycling toilet roll and turning it into paper plates...


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  • #61
    Merch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Merch


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    But disposing of other waste isn't. And burning it in a fireplace presumably generates some heat along with the smoke.

    so long as you dont mind breathing in the toxic fumes, fcukit Im stingy but that is too much, its hardly worth it if you're poisoning yourself or maybe your kids, think of others at all?
    recyclebin wrote: »
    If the stingy thread has thought me anything it's that argos catalogues make good fuel for burning in the stove.

    there's a stingy thread? :)


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