![]() ![]() This is the one part of SHTF trash burning “warnings” that made me laugh right out loud. Even small pieces of scrap wood will come in handy during a long-term disaster, and during the rebuilding stage that will follow for survivors.Ĭonsider sorting your scrap wood and creating a small lumber yard for future use instead of burning anything remotely usable in the future. Treated or composite wood is often used in campfires that are strictly for warming and not cooking purposes. While it would never be wise to burn treated wood in your fireplace or wood burning stove, or to cook a meal over it, tossing this type of wood into your burn barrel happens all the time in rural areas. There are many ways plastic water or pop bottles or food containers could be repurposed around a survival homesteading retreat or any bugin location that would keep them out of the burn barrel – as long as they are washed to avoid drawing pests or disease. I use as little plastic as possible because I do not like all of the chemicals that go into its production.īut, during a long-term disaster, any plastic that cannot be repurposed will go directly into the burn barrel or burn pit. Now, before the SHTF, we recycle or re-use all of our plastic. Plastics are on the non-burn list in multiple trash burning articles geared towards preppers. It is time to infuse some common sense into the burn or not to burn list of common trash items for urban and suburban preppers who likely stumbled across the same top search result articles I did, and did not grow up with trash burning as a weekly chore. The list of items these useless articles said could not or should not be burnt in a metal 55-gallon drum nearly outnumbered those that could. I found all such articles to be nothing more than useless drivel that surely would leave a newbie trash burner baffled. I have read multiple articles about burning trash, nearly all of which had to have been written by someone who had never actually struck a match against a burn barrel to get rid of a bag of trash. There are five tried and true ways to deal with trash problems during a SHTF event, or simply when living off grid. ![]() Safe And Sanitary Ways To Get Rid Of Trash Human beings bitten by such fleas ultimately led to the plague and the deaths of approximately 25 million people. When unsanitary conditions increase in both volume and exposure time, rats and the human-biting fleas that live upon them, will come calling. Air and ground contamination could likely to occur, as well, depending upon was placed in the garbage. Trash piles will blow and spread far beyond the confines of the dumping area, including into waterways. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, approximately 22 million tons of trash piled up across the Gulf Coast states. In that short amount of time, so many stacks of trash bags piled up on the streets that parents believed it was unhealthy and unsafe for their children to even go outdoors. In 2007, Waste Management Incorporated, one of the largest sanitation service providers in the nation, locked out almost 500 California workers for three weeks during a labor dispute. Safe And Sanitary Ways To Get Rid Of Trashĭuring either short term disasters, like Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, and garbage strikes over the years, mountains of trash piled up.These cans, and other common household non-burnables, must be disposed of promptly. Manufactured food cans, unless they are rinsed out thoroughly, will attract pests and predators, as well. If you’ll be eating your meals on paper plates during a SHTF event, the food residue on them will harken bugs, stinging insects, rodents, and both wild and domestic animals near your home in less than a day. Even if you do not live in a rural area, predators common “out in the country” will be finding their way into both the suburbs and cities during a long-term disaster. Bagged trash left outdoors will attract rodents that spread disease and a host of predators. Still, the trash that is created must have somewhere to go – and quickly. Store shelves will empty just a few hours after the SHTF, leaving only the packaging of stored preps to be disposed of at the bugin location or survival homesteading retreat. Concerns about another coming of the plague due to mounds of trash and raw sewage are very real, folks.ĭuring a long-term disaster, we will not be creating as much trash because no longer will wrappers and containers of store bought items be coming into our homes. Your trash, or more importantly the bacteria it grows and rodents it attracts, can kill you. On any given day, the average American can generate about four pounds of trash. Do you have a SHTF plan for dealing trash? If not, you should. ![]()
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