Why I Still Like Burning Trash
Anybody who has read this blog for a little while knows I am at least a little bit of a pyromanic. I like starting campfires, watching them burn, and I really like watching trash burn. While I’m against destruction of valuable or useful property, burning waste material and campfires under controlled conditions is so much fun.
People say burning trash is bad, it pollutes and it smells pretty nasty, especially if you have a smoldering fire with lots of plastic. It’s hard to disagree, although after ones burns trash for a while, you hardly even notice the smell of trash smoke. Indeed, in our vast rural areas, the impact is pretty low.
And I still think it’s a lot of fun.
- I love watching paper burn, the faces, the pictures, the text blacken up and burn with flashy yellow flames.
- I love watching plastic deform in the fire, drip, melt, and burn, with bright and colorful flames. The color varies on the plastic, vinyl chlorides burn blue and green.
- I love watching as the flames rip through the trash bags and chew their insides. Watching the destruction of waste, converted into soot and into smoke.
Hell, I’m such a pyromaniac. It gives me such an increadible high!
Burning wood and campfires is fun. The flicker of the flames and coals can mesmerise one. Yet, it lacks the drama and the fun of burning trash. Their simply aren’t the neat compounds and materials in wood, that make trash burning so interesting to watch. Their isn’t the statification of watching your waste material disappear before your eyes.
I really like watching trash burn. While no longer legal anywheres in NY State, I still burn trash when I’m camping in hot campfires. I also keep my “burnable” trash in summer, and burn it when camping. It’s destroyed almost instantly, but with all the beauty of a trash fire. I don’t litter, I carefully seperate unburnables and makes sure not leave any trace behind.
Some day I am going to own a place out in the country, and probably not in New York State. As a real country boy, I’m going to have my burn barrels, I will burn all of my burnable trash, far away from the neighbors who might otherwise complain about the smell that I actually kind of like. I’m not against recycling, and indeed I will seperate out cans and glass, but I sure love to watch and see my garbage burn.
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i love it too, ever since being a kid i always liked seeing our trash burn, esp rubber.
Fire is great, but rubber really stinks, even if you burn it hot.
the reason i say rubber, it burns really hot, and fast…..i used to have a rubber raincoat typical yellow rubber, my mom was going through my clothing to sort out things that i outgrew, she pulled out my raincoat, and since it was torn under the arm, my mom decided to put it in the trash. well she burnt it in our barrel. i wanted to see it burn and i always wanted to help burn the trash. later that day, she took out the trash to the barrel along with my raincoat. she put in the bags and put my raincoat it put a match to the raincoat and the bag of trash and in minutes my raincoat was turned into these dark orange flames. what i saw as the fire burned the rubber and canvas, it left behind an almost perfect raincoat of ash, you could still see what was once rubber. but if you touched it, it just turned into ash. awesome!
That’s the way you to go to do it. Put the stuff that burns readily at the bottom, and up top put the more noxious or wetter garbage up top… that way the flames dry out and burn that stuff up quickly with less pollution. Once it’s burned up, it’s gone, and won’t be sitting in a massive heap of garbage in the landfill forever.
LOL cool website. Politically incorrect.
The more the liberals outlaw burning trash, the more fun it is, to keep burning garbage anyway.
Burning garbage is fun. If it poisons the air, it was worth it. The holier-than-thou landfill people are wrong…. a giant mound of garbage filling up a valley is worse than make it disappear by burning.
Best of all is industrial trash incineration. And they make electricity while burning it. The liberals are opposed to that, cause it works so well.