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    being a past sufferer of cancer and a curent copd and infamacema patient burning wire insulation is not good for children and other living things. as stasted above they reliece Dioxen, bad bad stuff. but I sure hate taking wire to the yard because it is too small to strip and getting .40 a lb. I tried MEK works great but I made $5 extra on a half bucket fo comm wire ( computer wire) lol cost me $18 bucks for the MEK, back to the drawing board, there just has to be a way.


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    I live in the middle of no where on a farm and we have to burn our garbage. We don't have recyling out here in the country. Everyone burns burns everything, plastic, wood, anything and everything. We can also burn tires but they have a limit of one a day or something like that. I am a big conservationist and plant all kinds or trees and shrubs all around my property every year. It is a fact of life out here. Our small towns even do it. Some one comes and picks up there garbage and burns it all at the edge of town. To get to the point I end up burning my wires. I may start just stripping them but the plastic still goes into the burn pit. I know the ultimate goal is more money for our scrap so I like learning new ways and suggestions from people who know more about this job than I do. Thanks guys.

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