| The average household throws out over 500kg of | | | | heat and will therefore clog the chimney with sooty |
| paper and cardboard packaging each year. With a | | | | deposits. This can lead to disastrous chimney fires and |
| wood burning stove most of that can be converted | | | | the loss of life and property. |
| into free energy. Cardboard and paper can definitely | | | | However, if you are prepared to follow instructions |
| be used as free fuel instead of bought logs or coal. | | | | and be very patient, you really can get a free half ton |
| There are a few downsides. Firstly, when paper is | | | | of fuel each year to keep your house warm. Just |
| compressed into briquettes it can efficiently burn for | | | | collect all that paper and card and turn it into recycled |
| hours just as good as store bought briquettes or wood | | | | logs and briquettes. In the past this sort of saving this |
| logs. However, the process of making paper logs | | | | would have given you was very little in terms of |
| involves getting them wet and then letting them dry. | | | | money. In the modern age, with the cost of fuel rising |
| This can literally take months, and if you are too eager | | | | at a frankly alarming rate and the problems of global |
| to see the paper burn and attempt to light it while it is | | | | warming becoming all too apparent, the savings for |
| still full of moisture, two things can happen. At best you | | | | both our pockets and the environment are just to high |
| will not be able to light the recycled log or briquette. At | | | | to be ignored. |
| worst, the log will burn, but will not generate enough | | | | |