How to Burn a Milk Jug
Step 1: Light the lighter and set the milk jug on fire.
Step 2: Milk jug starts to melt and burn.
Step 3: Milk jug collapses on itself.
Step 4: Milk jug 3/4 gone; reduced to melted plastic, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, and water!
Step 5: It keeps burning up and disappearing.
Step 7: It’s almost entirely gone.
Step 8: All that’s left is a little resin left in the coals.
The fire has almost completely disposed of this milk jug that was previously just trash that otherwise would have lasted forever in a landfill. The fire will eventually burn out, and what remains will be burnt up in the next fire.
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I ran into your site while researching access to Alder Pond. Your love of the woods and secret spots is clear from your blog and your facebook page and I share those sentiments. And then I see you are burning plastic bottles in the forest! There are few more objectionable odors you can come upon when out in the woods.
I am glad you enjoy my blog. Let me know if there are any other maps you are interested in — I can make them up pretty quickly.
As far as camping, I agree I can’t stand when people litter. I always leave campsites nice and clean. But I also don’t worry about a little plastic or other trash burned in campfire. Plenty of farms and rural houses across America burn their trash, and usually a lot more then a single milk bottle in a trash fire.
I always make sure there is nothing left but natural wood or ash when I leave a campsite. I pick up other folks litter.
Enjoy our wilds.
http://www.epa.gov/solidwaste/nonhaz/municipal/backyard/index.htm
Good thing, every time I’ve not been in a city, I’ve always burned the burnable garbage and recycled the cans and glass. Most stuff burns pretty good, and the environmental impact is tiny compared to landfills and municipal incinerators.
oh shit