Amazon cardboard boxes, brown paper bags, can I burn’em?

[DrfluffyMD]

We have an inordinate amount of amazon boxes and brown paper bag from them. Throwing them away is a huge effort.

Can we burn them? I heard their adhesive is made from fruit / starch and I don’t see metals in them.

I have a noncat EPA stove.

 

[begreen]

Not a good idea, that can create a lot of ash and floating embers from the chimney. Take the cardboard and paper to the recycler if no curbside recycling.

 

[EbS-P]

Take the cardboard and paper to the recycler if no curbside recycling.

And if that’s too much work just make a compost pile with it. Keep it watered. It will breakdown. A shovel can help. Don’t lay it flat. I’d peel all the tape off.

 

[Woody Stover]

Take the cardboard and paper to the recycler if no curbside recycling.

That's a lot easier than trying to jam all that stuff into your trash can. Our landfill has single-stream recycling bins, you can throw paper, plastic and metal into one bin. Unfortunately, glass has to go to another place. But that place also takes paper, plastic and metal. Both are places we drive past fairly often, so we just throw stuff into our car trunks as we get it, then get rid of it when we go into town the next time.