[Homestead] woodstove/newsprint

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Thu Nov 15 13:18:13 EST 2007


On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:19 PM, tom wrote:

> I know the conventional wisdom for a long time has been to never use
> newsprint with color ink to start a fire.  Has this changed with many
> newspapers starting to use soy-based ink for their color printing?
> Its getting harder to find black-only pages in my local paper!

I never heard that one. I suppose the ashes from such fires might  
best be not used in one's food-growing areas.

I always liked the colors put out by the various chemicals in colored  
ink.

Learn to start fires without paper.




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