On 26 Apr 2006 01:27:50 -0700 someone who may be "Kev"
wrote this:-

I would put it that burning is more environmentally friendly
since you have not used electricity to shred the stuff and therefore
did not consume any fossil fuel at all.

If the person has 100% renewable electricity then this is not a
factor.

I like the way that our local council gave everybody a huge green
wheelie bin then every two weeks come around in a huge diesel lorry
collecting grass clippings then say it is environmentally friendly. Yeh
right.

The likely alternative is people putting grass clippings into the
"normal" rubbish bin, where it will add to the landfill mountain.
Better to separate it out and use it for composting by the council.
Better still to encourage people to compost most of it themselves.

Burning is for perennial weeds, unless one puts them in the council
composting bin.


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