10 Dangerous Trees You Should Never Burn Because the Smoke Can Kill ?
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I think burning in a modern stove burns those compounds. The warnings are for open campfires where some of those can be released.
I do have the impression that he just listed a bunch of trees that do contain toxic compounds and the assumes they survive a fire.
I do have the impression that he just listed a bunch of trees that do contain toxic compounds and the assumes they survive a fire.
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I burn plenty of black walnut in my stove. Burned plenty of some of the others in brush piles and I'm still here, I'm sure I've breathed some of the smoke. I'm more concerned with what I'm breathing from air pollution I can't control along with the junk in my water. My neighbors burn their trash with soda bottle and baby diapers and all of the other junk in it.
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At high enough temperatures, the question isn't what burns. It's what doesn't. Not weighing in on the wisdom of burning plastic bottles and diapers...
I've burned lots of black walnut. No problem. It splits easy. Here's a couple Nissan truck loads I stacked in my yard, the woodshed was full.
On the other hand, I made the big beams in my log cabin from black walnut. I had my helper sanding down one of the beams. He had on a respirator, but still he got fine powdered black walnut sawdust on his arms and it made him sick. I sent him home and I sanded down the big beams for the next 4 hours. It made me a little ill but I could handle it. It is some freaky wood, for sure.
If you are burning a trash pile in the yard, don't let any poison ivy get into the fire. If you breathe poison ivy smoke you will get poison ivy in the lungs. Might be headed to ICU.
On the other hand, I made the big beams in my log cabin from black walnut. I had my helper sanding down one of the beams. He had on a respirator, but still he got fine powdered black walnut sawdust on his arms and it made him sick. I sent him home and I sanded down the big beams for the next 4 hours. It made me a little ill but I could handle it. It is some freaky wood, for sure.
If you are burning a trash pile in the yard, don't let any poison ivy get into the fire. If you breathe poison ivy smoke you will get poison ivy in the lungs. Might be headed to ICU.
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East Tennessee huh? I'm just a few miles away in western NC. I had some neighbors, a quarter mile away, couldn't see their trailer they were down in the valley, and one Saturday I smelled a nasty toxic smell in the air. Later I drove past their place and I saw the problem. They had a 55 gallon drum and they burned all their garbage. Milk cartons, plastic Coke bottles, every Saturday morning they dumped it all in the drum and burned it up. If the wind was right I got to smell that for several hours.
They didn't want to be bothered with dumping their trash at the landfill. The landfill was 1 mile away.
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I can't bring myself to run a burn barrel. It's a simple habit, driving down the hill? Put the trash in the truck. Let the county inmates take it out at the drop of in the village.
I would be plenty pissed off at someone who wants me to breathe carcinogens because it is convenient for them. I breathed more than enough plastic fumes when I was overseas, I am not doing it at home.
Yeah agreed, burning trash (especially plastic) is an extremely inconsiderate move because the highly carcinogenic compounds immediately go into the atmosphere and are breathed in by one’s neighbors, and it also worsens the quality of air we all breathe, generally. I try my best to mind my own business but if I saw somebody doing that in my town, I’d call the police immediately lol. That’s how people get lung, brain, and blood cancers.
I grew up in a town that had a trash incinerator, they built my HS and a park on the dumped waste. I live near Eastman Chemical now and have been surrounded by paper mills, chemical manufacturers, rayon plants and coal powerplants a major portion of my life. Most don't even realize how bad the air is despite the pretty landscape, don't even want to talk about the water.
I used to work in a place where '50s stuff still leaks out of barrels into the ground, leading to exceptionally large frogs etc.
And to the advice only to eat fish upstream from the place.
And to deer being harvested having to be tested before being allowed to take them home.
Testing. At least we know. Progress...
And to the advice only to eat fish upstream from the place.
And to deer being harvested having to be tested before being allowed to take them home.
Testing. At least we know. Progress...
Progress?? Local dump has monitor wells, they know it's poisoning the water, all they have to do is keep testing while the poison keeps flowing. It's a private owned landfill that they leased out decades ago, old story everyone knew what they were doing but everyone turned their head. They changed company name and distanced themselves from any liability and eventually it will be a superfund site. Lived near one of those in NC. Have a coal ash dump right along side a river that is monitored and leaching heavy metals and other poisons into the water. It's covered in grass and looks so pretty and eagles live right there on the river so most have no clue what's there.
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