Old trash?

[Murph351]

Our neighbor's So.Cal. 1920's house still has the old incinerator out back and I was wondering if anyone knew the general time frame that most cities required trash pickup over burning.

 

[Miss Brill]

I know people who were burning their garbage as late as the late 1980s. [huh]

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Our neighbor's So.Cal. 1920's house still has the old incinerator out back and I was wondering if anyone knew the general time frame that most cities required trash pickup over burning.

For Los Angeles, the date trash incineration was made illegal was Oct. 1, 1957.

My -favorite- old LA resource blog has a story on it.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/09/mystery-photo-4.html

 

[Murph351]

Thanks! Great link.

 

[Girl Friday]

This reminded me of a story I saw last week on the news, a guy that saved his trash for a year:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319111,00.html

I barely have room for the one trash can and recycle bin in our house!

 

[Twitch]

Isn't it odd though that it's still legal to burn wood in fireplaces in So. California? IE., surprised it's legal to burn anything.[huh]

 

[dhermann1]

Here in NYC I can still look out the window of my office and see a plume of black smoke go up from a tall apartment building for a few minutes as garbage is obviously being incinerated. I don't know if it's legal or not, but it's being done.

 

[The Wingnut]

...nothing wrong with burning wood as long as you're keeping the fire hot enough. Most people don't know how to properly tend a fire, however, and end up producing more smoke than heat. A proper fire will not produce smoke at all, just a shimmer of heat out of the chimney.

My grandfather had a garbage incinerator in the back yard up 'til the late '70s, when garbage pickup became cheap enough to warrant putting it all at the curb.

 

[Girl Friday]

We have 2 fire pits in our backyard. They are handy for branches and dead foliage. And you smell like a campfire.

 

[Fleur de vanité]

I still burn my trash,well as far as big boxes and old,unfixable furniture goes. I'll drop off our inside trash at the local dumpster.

I do love the aroma of burning trash!

 

[Twitch]

Girl Friday- I'd wager that those "fire pits" are actually what were originally ash pits if you are in the midwest/east. People would haul out the ash remains from the fuel burnt in the coal furnace and/or fireplace and they made a pick up occassionally for the stuff.

 

[panamag8or]

We still burn yard trash. We haul it down to the beach (i.e. exposed lake bottom) until we have a big pile. That doesn't take long with two houses sharing the pile and tons of trees in both yards.

 

[DutchIndo]

Didn't I read somewhere they were trying to ban fireplaces in San Fransisco ?