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I prefer reading my news online, but my husband can't live 
without the real thing. Our neighbors (yes, the ones that 
obliterated most of their trees) give us their paper when 
they are done with it, and after we are finished and a 
sufficient stack has collected, I take them to a local 
business that uses them as packing material.

We do, however, burn our junk mail, cereal boxes, etc. 
with color inks as kindling in our fireplace, as we don't 
want to compost them, they aren't accepted as recyclables 
in our area, and we have to haul our own trash and pay per 
bag. Since we don't get too cold down here (first freeze 
was last night!), sometimes this and a few small logs are 
enough for us. So far, I have used the ash on the lawn but 
not the garden.

--Sage
Way Out in Texas


On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:18:13 -0600
 Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> 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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