Where I live, they pick up recycling weekly when they do the trash. It's all in one "mixed stream" and cardboard is one of the materials to be left for recycling.
Sometimes, especially when one or more big cardboard boxes are sitting in my porch, waiting up to a week to be recycled, I wonder if it would be better to burn them. It seems like I'm giving up a bunch of BTU's by sending away the cardboard. On the other hand, it's less work to recycle them than it is to cut them up and burn them
I've got a non-Cat fireplace insert, so there's no stove catalyst to worry about. However, it's in the basement on an exterior wall, so it's not the most efficient setup for getting heat. There are some warnings that cardboard could causing a stove to overfire - but I'd putting the cardboard in in pieces: not soaking it with gasoline, stuffing the stove with it, lighting it, and walking away, and taking Michael Jackson drugs to sleep while it burns.
I did search a bunch on google and on this site and found some other answers, but not to this specific question:
-- There are some Yahoo answers on burning in the open vs trashing Cardboard (mixed opinions)
-- Lots of admonitions to not burn other things in stoves, like pressure treated wood, or colored waxy paper.
-- Caution is urged when dealing with a catalytic stove
-- Hearth.com's own list, https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/wiki/Things_you_should_not_burn,
seems way overly cautious (though I'm sure it's technically correct). It says don't burn anything but cordwood, including "firewood that has been sitting out to dry for too long". Maybe it can happen out west, but "too dry firewood" sounds like an imaginary concept to someone in the humid East coast area.
-- several people on these boards have burnt cardboard with no problems.
Sometimes, especially when one or more big cardboard boxes are sitting in my porch, waiting up to a week to be recycled, I wonder if it would be better to burn them. It seems like I'm giving up a bunch of BTU's by sending away the cardboard. On the other hand, it's less work to recycle them than it is to cut them up and burn them
I've got a non-Cat fireplace insert, so there's no stove catalyst to worry about. However, it's in the basement on an exterior wall, so it's not the most efficient setup for getting heat. There are some warnings that cardboard could causing a stove to overfire - but I'd putting the cardboard in in pieces: not soaking it with gasoline, stuffing the stove with it, lighting it, and walking away, and taking Michael Jackson drugs to sleep while it burns.
I did search a bunch on google and on this site and found some other answers, but not to this specific question:
-- There are some Yahoo answers on burning in the open vs trashing Cardboard (mixed opinions)
-- Lots of admonitions to not burn other things in stoves, like pressure treated wood, or colored waxy paper.
-- Caution is urged when dealing with a catalytic stove
-- Hearth.com's own list, https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/wiki/Things_you_should_not_burn,
seems way overly cautious (though I'm sure it's technically correct). It says don't burn anything but cordwood, including "firewood that has been sitting out to dry for too long". Maybe it can happen out west, but "too dry firewood" sounds like an imaginary concept to someone in the humid East coast area.
-- several people on these boards have burnt cardboard with no problems.