Originally Posted by: dvenetianI beg your forgiveness...........................
It's not that I'm a Pro-Global warming advocate and I certainly don't believe that igniting a fire daily has anything to do with this topic in any way....
However, as a National Manufacturer who's raw product line derives from a process referred as "Stripped Mining", I deal with Environmental Agencies about as often as changing guitar strings. It's obvious that vehicle emissions are a standard topic of concern and with the amount of vehicles that is understood. It's the things that aren't released to the General Public that make a bigger picture. The concern from the most populated areas of the world aren't helping matters. Places like Sumgayit, Azerbaijan, with their Mercury emissions, Tianying, China, mining Lead, Dzerzinsk, Russia, chemical weapons manufacturing since the cold war era, India's chromite mining and the list goes on.. The Chernobyl temporary fix was estimated to last between 20 and 30 years. The reactor meltdown occurred in 1986. Time for another bandaid.
Is it causing Global Warming???? Who knows... Is it helping the environment, I highly doubt it...........

I guess I'm of the theory that I re-use everything as much as possible and then use it to heat my room instead of tossing things out.

For instance... I get a package from UPS. I take all the packing and instructional papers and cut them up to be used as food plates.
When I make a sandwich, I grab a side of the box and a used printer paper for cleanliness and use it as a plate. I re-use the same knife (don't wash it...just wipe it on a huge bath towel hung on the regrigerator), then eat the sandwich off the printer paper. Then I toss it in the fireplace for kindling.

Basically I get several uses from just one Purolator box and a second hand printer paper.

Over the winter months, I save up all my used papers like boxes and used typing paper and then when winter gets here, I go into my storage room and start using all the left over junk to fire up the fireplace.

Like, I said.... just a couple of small boxes and a few papers can keep the room warm all night and I still haven't turned on the electric heaters in the house yet even thought the temp outside is below 32º

I also throw old food scraps, left over candles, socks and anything else that can be burned.
You'd be amazed at how warm it gets in here.