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Went to Rural King before church tonight and bought a 55 gallon full metal drum.\u00a0 The intent is to punch a bunch of holes in it tomorrow and to use it as a burn barrel to burn only paper products (no plastics allowed).\u00a0 Ok, I know it is not exactly green but do I want to use all the fuel to truck it to a landfill that will allow all decaying matter to slowly seep into the aquifer?\u00a0 In the long run I think it will save energy<\/a> while polluting\u00a0 just a smidge.\u00a0 To the USA energy is more important than going on a vendetta against burners that live in the far country environment.<\/p>\n

We canceled our garbage service 6 months ago and have instituted a rigorous recycling<\/a> program that includes no special trips to the recyclers – we include this on our weekly shopping trip and to special events like buying a burn barrel.\u00a0 The result is about 3 -4 shopping size plastic bags that leave the premises each week: That includes glass which the recyclers will not take.\u00a0 We were pretty impressed with this.\u00a0 The burn barrel will “take it up a notch”.<\/p>\n

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Remember that all the new stuff, like the energy efficient light bulbs, contains mercury and other bad contaminants<\/a>.\u00a0 Recycling those items to the county recycling agent is a special trip and does not figure into our energy equation but we try to do\u00a0these trips in an energy efficient manner.<\/p>\n

I have two mercury vapor<\/a> bulbs, many Ni Cad<\/a> & Lithium batteries that I take to the special place.\u00a0 The new efficient electric light<\/a> bulbs will take a special place to get rid of them & I cannot understand the government stance on the subject.\u00a0 They list all incandescent bulbs as bad but we have a totally electric heat situation and in the winter any light that is on is 95+% efficient in generating heat.\u00a0 In the summer, we are on DST<\/a> so the incandescent lights<\/a> generate heat for only a couple of hours at most.\u00a0 Be that as it may, the lights we leave on most of the time are the efficient type that contain mercury and cast a greenish sort of glow ( OK, this is not fair) that makes my skin look jaundice.<\/p>\n

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