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OK. I do think that even from my glass house, that it is fair to throw this rock.
Burning trash, which always includes petroleum based produces, in your back yard, is spewing large amounts, well documented I might add, of dioxins in a plume. The fallout from this plume, can be measured in the soil in a fairly short period of time. At amazing levels. Few people would support the idea of eating food grow in soil with dioxins in them.
I know, your Father burned the trash, and your Grandfather burned the trash, but their trash did not have the plastics that are in your trash.
I will dig up the links that may help those of you who think that this sort of information is nonsense, to maybe stop burning your trash at home. Home burnt thrash produces many, many times the toxins of an incinerator. Actual numbers will be in the link.
May I add PLEASE stop burning your trash at home.