What to do with your slab wood........

[stonebroke]

I just cut the pieces of treated wood up into foot long pieces and put it in with the regular trash. You would be amazed at how much you can get rid of in a few months.

Stonebroke

[Furby]

Doug, you're gonna have to show the law you speak of.
There is a tractor/engine/whatever business not to far from the fire department/police station here.
Large city, heavy controls.
He piles up and burns all his pallets and some cardboard in a field about a 100 yards or so from the buildings.
Gonna say average height is 12' and 20' in dia. Burns the piles with a burn permit several times a year, no problems.
I know of many others as well.

It is illegal in MI to place yard waste in landfills, they must go to recycling centers.
That is grass clippings, garden weeds, leaves, branches, logs and such.

The proccesed wood is allowed in landfills.
That is boards or anything of that type, pallets included.

It's also legal to burn your own trash.

[farmerdoug]

Furby,

That is interesting.  I will look to find the law.  I know that you can burn trash but it has to be in an container ie. burning barrel, etc.

Farmerdoug

[farmerdoug]

Furby, I found this link on the DNR site but the DEQ must be having problems as anything they have will not load right now.  I will look again tonight.

deq-aqd-open-burning-brochure

Farmerdoug

[farmerdoug]

Here is a link that is working to the MDNR on open burning.  The mentions what is allowed under a burning permit.

issued only for burning leaves, brush and stumps

Farmerdoug

[farmerdoug]

Here is another MDNR link.

open burning ordinance

The MDEQ site is still down.  That is were the best info is.  Furby,  I guess maybe the local government lets you get away with open burning of trash but not in our area.  Maybe you guys are burning on borrowed time there.

Farmerdoug

[Dana]

The fire departments up here still practice burn houses and barns up here.

[farmerdoug]

Dana,  The burning of buildings for fire dept practice is allowed under the MDNR ordinance.  They do that here too.

Farmerdoug

[mike_van]

Here in Ct., towns with a pop. of under 5000 can still open burn, brush only, smaller than 3" it says on the permit.  So, if you happen to be in a remote corner of a bigger town, you're outta luck.   On that treated wood - The firechief told me years ago that burning CCA wood gave off hydrogen cyanide in the smoke - not a good thing - I got a face full at work on a pole fire one day, it will really put a hurtin on you - Not like campfire smoke, thats for sure -  smiley_hanged