What do you use your empty pellet bags for??

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Don2222

Minister of Fire
Feb 1, 2010
9,110
Salem NH
Hello

We use ours for the recycled trash. Then take it all to the landfill.

What do you use them for?
 

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Mine go in my recycle bin for recycling. I feel good knowing they are not ending up in a landfill. I'm not a "greenie", but don't like the idea of all these bags going in a landfill either.
Flynfrfun
 
We can't use the pellet bags for the "landfill". We have to buy yellow trash bags ($1.00 each) from the Town and then actually bag up the used pellet bags in the special yellow landfill bags, to then dispose them.
I just wouldn't do this, so I put them on CL free and a guy came and got them.
He picks up bottles along the roads.
 
Don2222 said:
Hello

We use ours for the recycled trash. Then take it all to the landfill.

What do you use them for?
Same here-I dont buy many trash bags between November&April;
 
sounds kinda bad but as all my trash...it all goes in the burning barrel....
 
I use them to put the recycle. How many bags a week are ya'll burning anyways? Im averaging 3 or so per week. I have an Au Pair so my stove burns all day as opposed to some of my friends who turn their stoves off during the day while at work.
 
KatWill said:
I use them to put the recycle. How many bags a week are ya'll burning anyways? Im averaging 3 or so per week. I have an Au Pair so my stove burns all day as opposed to some of my friends who turn their stoves off during the day while at work.

I'm burning 3 a day in my P68, but I'm heating 3200sqft with it so far. It's 30 degrees out side right now and I'm able to keep the house at about 75 through out. My bags go in the recycle bin also. Had not thought about baging the other stuff in them first.
 
I'm burning 3 a day in my P68, but I'm heating 3200sqft with it so far. It's 30 degrees out side right now and I'm able to keep the house at about 75 through out. My bags go in the recycle bin also. Had not thought about baging the other stuff in them first.[/quote]

3 Bags a day? Good Golly. If the average bag is costing you $5 that's $15 a day X 30 = $450 a month give or take. Wow seems like alot, no?
 
Same here. I'll be damned to spend $40 a month for them to take my trash when I can burn it for free.

burrman said:
sounds kinda bad but as all my trash...it all goes in the burning barrel....
 
I give mine to my sister who uses them to put her kitty excrement in. Dunno where it goes from there. Landfill I suppose. I burn my trash too, but only the paper stuff. Plastics and metal come to work with me and they dispose of it from there. More landfill I suppose. This keeps my burn barrel from getting mucked up.

I am burning two bags of pellets a day to keep the east end of the house 78 and the west end 68 in our 30 degree climate. Soon to be more as the temp falls.
 
SmokeyTheBear said:
Empty pellet bag bags ;-).

X3. Then to the recycle bin at the transfer station.

Also great for emptying my ash pan into (cold ash of course!!) and not getting any ash spilling out.
 
put them in the kitchen trash can
so I dont have to buy bags for it
then throw them away
if I save them I can go year round
burn more pellets than bags of trash
 
I made a slip cover for my couch out of them. New window coverings next few bags.
 
Stuff them full of paper trash, then out to the burn pile.

Dont use too many pellets at present but have a few bags from time to time (Burn mostly nut shells)


Snowy
 
Use them in the kitchen trash can.
 
GOING TO USE MINE TO WRAP THE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
 
No open burning of trash allowed int his state. Hate the idea of them being in a landfill forever, but if you think about it, unless they decompose into somthing harmful, then the real issue is wasting resources. I would prefer to recycle, but when I go to the area land fill, if you want to recycle and have other trash, you have to drive through twice. once with all your are bringing, then again after you have unloaded the recyclables. Often there is a line waiting and the whole thing becomes a pain in............
 
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