[DanielDudley]

I'll burn clean wood and brush, no paint, no plastics or chemicals. I pay 60 dollars a month to have trash and recyclables removed. I sometimes let my neighbors throw in, as the bins are large.

I had two neighbors over the years who would burn plastics, trash and even asphalt shingles. That stuff will choke me out from quite a distance. If I have a problem, I ask nicely. I have made a point of being a good neighbor for as long as I can remember. Maybe not so much as a young hooligan, but since then.

I do a lot of composting too, but sometimes I burn, every three of four years. Clean stuff. I used to burn around two weeks before Christmas, and invite everybody to a winter bonfire and party. I'd save it all up and make a ceremony out of it. People like that, especially if there is food and drink.

My next door neighbor had her barn collapse many years ago, and she had an excavator tear down her house and threw that on the pile as well. This was out on the back 20 acres. I trucked in a lot of brush from clearing and torched the lot for her one day during a phenomenal rain storm that lased two days. It was literally pouring hard from about an hour after I lit the fire, and the flames still hit 30 or 40 feet into the air. A lot of old wood there, it burned hot and looked clean. I don't know if I'd do it today though.