how many bonfires a year can one have in there garden?

ic

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82155004#Comment_82155004

"The only [legal] option" - really? What about taking it to the local tip, paying someone to come and collect the waste, composting it in the garden? The OP said they're talking about cardboard and grass cuttings. Personally the only garden waste I haven't been able to chop up for the green bin is the trunk and thicker branches of a small tree I cut down.

FreeBear

Personally the only garden waste I haven't been able to chop up for the green bin is the trunk and thicker branches of a small tree I cut down.

Stack them close to the kerb with a sign saying "Free Logs". Someone with a wood burner will quickly snaffle them in the middle of the night.

Section62

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82155179#Comment_82155179

^Yes, really.

composting it in the garden

As I said in the post you quoted, "there is some garden waste which shouldn't be composted". Therefore composting it in the garden is a bad idea.

Different councils have different policies, but many have a list of prohibited garden waste materials even at the "local tip".

Some folk think they can chuck anything in their green waste bin, but probably haven't checked with their local authority what should be excluded, and some perhaps wouldn't recognise what the excluded materials are even if they knew the rules.

Section62

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82155175#Comment_82155175

There are only a handful of things that shouldn't be composted. Japanese Knotweed is the main one. It's counted as hazardous waste. All the
common pernicious weeds are killed by high temperature composting.

Like FreeBear's, the local council here has a long list of things you can't put in the green waste bin.

sheramber

The best people to ask are the people who sent you the letter..

The only things excluded by my council for collection is soil and branched over a certain thickness.

I do not put infected rose leaves in the compost bin , but they go in the rubbish bag which gets tied shut when full and put in my general waste bin.

Bigphil1474

Almost certainly just a warning letter which means the EH team can say they've done their bit and can happily close the complaint and tell the complainant they've done something. However, you have been warned so if they witness a further issue, they can take action. Very unlikely to witness anything these days tbh, not enough staff.

When I used to deal with nuisance, it was basically scallywags who had bonfires at night so that nobody could see the black smoke from them burning tyres and other crap. Basically, if there's black smoke they were probably burning stuff they shouldn't be and you can't tell at night. If it was me, I'd have a bonfire early evening depending what my neighbours were doing. Burning recyclables isn't very neighbourly though.

Eldi_Dos

This thread has reawakened concerns I have had for awhile now about the commendable increase in recylcling policies. With more and more food waste, paper, garden waste being seperated from the general waste that goes to landfill my worry is that the percentage of flammable materials entering landfills is increasing and I wonder if we are leaving a legacy that future generations will have to deal with.

Section62

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82156110#Comment_82156110

The percentage of household waste going to landfill is pretty low now - about 5% I think. In terms of flammability, methane produced by decomposition of organics was always considered the greatest risk, so reducing organics going to landfill should - in theory - lower the overall risk rather than increase it. Incineration (including EfW) accounts for about half the collected tonnage, with recycling making up the remaining 45% or so.

In terms of legacy, I've long held the view that demonisation of landfill by policy may turn out to be a mistake. Future generations may look to historic landfill as a source of valuable/scarce materials. In particular, non-biodegradable plastics could just sit underground for decades or centuries and be a useful source when production of new plastics is less easy than it is now. Instead we burn it, thinking this is more environmentally friendly somehow.

Boohoo

I have a person who burns stuff in their fireplace even in the summer time.

The persons house backs onto our property at the back garden.

He has loads of old wood and furniture in his garden that he accumulated over the years and cuts it up with an electric saw or chain saw at all times of the day.

During the heatwaves he still had the fires going.

The smell is awful as the furniture has varnish or other treatments done to it.

We live in a smoke free and no bonfire area and it doesn't stop him

WIAWSNB

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82156299#Comment_82156299

That IS illegal.