To think that people who light bonfires in the day are selfish?

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Beautiful weather for drying washing this weekend. Got it in and it stank of bonfire smoke . I was in all weekend with the windows shut so didn't smell any fires . I've had to bloody rewash the lot . I'm fuming . Apparently there is no law stopping anyone lighting fires in the day time . Yes I've lit fires but always after dark or after 8 pm in Summer .

This

I don’t know why anyone needs a bonfire. Council collect garden waste or take to the tip. Should be banned especially in urban areas

Just poke the bonfire with a stick before lighting it

How's that going to help

Yep, and terrible for the environment

Try living rurally with umpteen dozens of trees. 🙄

We have so much dead foliage and brush that we've got to clear before the new growth forms and it's far too much to be able to compost it all - we do compost a lot of it but we burn the excess. But we only burn when the wind is in the right direction ie to not impact on our neighbours. So on "good" days I'm lighting that bonfire come 4 o'clock.

A neighbour to us is a serial bonfire lighter. I’m not actually sure what he burns. The other day he had a bonfire lit by 7.30am and it as still burning by midday.

Why can't you compost it all?

Sounds well dodgy

@soleilblue I agree, but he’s not a young man. He’s in his 70s(?), lives alone, never seen any other family there. Seems to be a lot of garden rubbish, but also aware he burns paper. Maybe he thinks it’s the best way to destroy old paperwork etc. However, he does have a lot of bonfires, far more than the average person.

A couple of times a year is fine, weekly is antisocial. Yes there's recycling centres but many now have limits on visits, short opening hours and ours often is full by lunchtime on Sunday (the crane driver doesn't work Sundays so once each type is full, that's it)

One of my neighbours burns things in her garden every single day. The smoke is often thick in the street from it! We don't have huge gardens and she lives alone so fuck knows what she finds to burn.

Another house has been done up and the builders are burning their rubbish each day, including the plastic tubes from silicone and all sorts.

We live in a smokeless area and people get all arsey about people having wood burners but people can burn anything they like because it's a bonfire?

Personally I'm annoyed by our neighbours having a barbecue every weekend during the summer, they light it around 3pm whilst I still have washing on the line. I don't want my clothes smelling of lighter fuel and barbecue coals. But there's not a lot I can do about it, I just have to dash out and gather in my washing quickly.

Selfish pricks is right. When I was growing up it was never before 7.30pm and on really hot days when windows were open you just wouldn’t do it.

Because compost is a 50:50 mix of brown (dead leaves, twigs, straw) and and green (veggie peelings, fresh grass clippings). We have too much "brown" and that slows down the composting rate if it weren't mixed 50:50.

I didn’t know that there was an average person’s number of bonfires! —grin—

DH was a nightmare for this. When we moved in together it was the one thing we argued about. I hated it and found it really embarrassing,as I'm sure the neighbours hated it too.
The only thing that stopped him was our house burning down (NOT as a result of one of his bloody garden fires-it was due to an electrical issue). We are all paranoid about fire now. The stopping of his garden fires has been the only good thing about it!

NO ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO LIGHT POISONOUS TOXIC FIRES ANYWHERE, RURAL OR SUBURBIA, ITS A DISGUSTING FILTHY ACT AND VERY SELFISH TO NEIGHBOURS. THERE IS SOMEONE IN THIS TOWN WHERE I LIVE IN QLD NOT FAR FROM DALBY QLD AND THEY LIGHT A HUGE FIRE EVERY NIGHT NO MATTER HOW THE WEATHER IS EVEN WHEN ITS VERY WINDY. THE SMOKE GETS BLOWN INSIDE MY HOUSE MANY TIMES ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT WHEN THE WIND IS BLOWING IN MY DIRECTION. I DONT LIVE REAL CLOSE TO THE FIRE BUT SMOKE CAN TRAVEL A VERY LONG WAY WHEN ITS WINDY. THE FIRE IS HUGE, APROX THE SIZE OF 8 TO 16 HOURS PUT TOGETHER. ITS NOT TALL, ITS SHORT BUT EXTREMELY LONG. I WAS IN AGONY TODAY WITH MY CHEST, I HAVE CHEST CONDITIONS AND THE PAIN WAS SO HORRIFIC CAUSED FROM THE SMOKE I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO PASS OUT FROM THE AGONIZING PAIN.

It's totally gross and an antisocial selfish act on a par with fly tipping. There's no excuse, the infestructure is there to remove household waste.

Perhaps it is for you. That is not true for all of us

Our nearest tip is a 34 mile round trip, and requires a pre-booked appointment.
I have a garden bin, collected every other week, and two compost heaps but my garden generates far more waste than that.

I stack and dry larger prunings to use in our log burner the following winter but still burn a lot of garden waste. I am careful to light fires only on evenings when there is no washing out, no-one having a barbecue, and when there is a breeze to disperse any smoke.

in the right weathers its nice coal or wood

Woodchiiper, rewinding your garden, chop and drop, lots of alternatives out there.