It's funny how some states ban burning, but they will burn all trash. CT has a trash to energy plant, can't be the only one. All I burn are brush, lumber scraps etc. Burn barrel lasted most 4 years, and most of my burning is open fires. Important documents that are no longer needed are in burn barrel. We recycle as much as we can, but let's be honest, we've seen the 60 minutes segment where the US sends to a third world country, or China, and they dump in ocean. It's not right, but it happens. Wasn't it after Japan's sunomi that trash washed up on Calli's shores?