In article , Bob G wrote:
On 16 Jul 2004 00:42:27 GMT, Ignoramus23926
wrote:

Turns out that burning trash is illegal in my state, for good
environmental reasons. It makes dioxin and whatnot.

i

Chuckle, true enough. I've read the studies.

Of course the newspapers, enviornmental groups, and so forth get wild
about reporting and discussing it, as if it were nearly the end of the
world that people are allowed to burn trash. And that trash burning
by private individuals is the new "greatest threat" to the
enviornment.

Supposedly, half of dioxin comes from burn barrels.

http://www.epa.state.il.us/community.../burn-barrels/

If yah actually read the relative studies and evidence. The actual
study results, not the news reporter hype material. And the
discussion about the issue done by -chemists-, not the discussions
done by what are too often the science illiterate enviornmental whacko
groups. You'll note that the main problem is that some folks do not
know better, and burn various plastics and other man-made artifical
materials (nylon, naugahide, so on and so forth) in their burn
barrels.

This is a no-no, or should be.

Well, duh, you are right, but precisely that's why they outlaw burn
barrels, so that retards or ignorant people would not do it.

If you did not know, a lot of the man-made materials commonly found in
homes, release some nasty stuff when burned. Particularly materials
made of PVC.

yep.

You are right in that if informed people burn stuff, it would be
better.

In any case, I gave up on the idea of a burn barrel, as I think that I
will make the rest of the society to pay for what essentially is my
entertainment.

i