When looking for tinder and fuel ...

[Tony]

Be wary of what you've been drying though as some lint doesn't take well

 

[Adi007]

I've never managed to figure out what burns and what doesn't ... synthetics are rubbish but some cotton is awful too ... anyone got any firm ideas on this?

Be wary of what you've been drying though as some lint doesn't take well

 

[sargey]

i think stuff like kids pyjamas that may be cotton, has to have some sort of fire retatardent.

cheers, and.

 

[Ed]

Coloured cloth can be semi fire retardant depending on what is used in the dye. I made char cloth out of a 100% cotton red T-shirt, and after the process I was left with a black/dark red sticky mess at the bottom of the can from the dye.... The buffed cotton on its own was useless as tinder, thats why I turned it into char.... and it worked a treat.
Trial and error seems the only way to go to find what will work and what will not.


Ed

 

[Adi007]

Yep ... nothing like it!

Trial and error seems the only way to go to find what will work and what will not.

 

[TAHAWK]

We live just outside the Cleveland, Ohio metropolitan area. Our local recycling got very little business UNTIL free waste collection was replaced with a system where one pays according to the volume carried away. Suddenly, the recyling center had to increase the number of containers per week by 12X. Tons of paper, glass, tires, steel and aluminum are collected each week from a population of 8500 - and that, in its own way, is also the bad news.

 

[martin]

I work in the biggest Corrugated Cardboard Packageing Plant in Europe.
EVERY scrap of waste be it paper or cardboard is shredded, bailed up and sent to a waste merchant. That includes all the trim from the Corrugators and the Converters. Nothing is wasted.