Fireplace Brick Maker

SHUT UP-DOES THIS THING WORK OR NOT?!!

I tried this and frankly, it was a waste of time. The bricks take literally days to dry, and even then they burn really poorly. Shame, because I liked the idea.

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Seriously. it reduces landfill and hey, burning is the best way of getting rid of stuff, especially rubbish. i can't see you making any suggestions on how to tackle this subject???

you realy need to get a grip, why all the fuss about co2 emmisions when nature has a way of causing more than humans ever could just look at volcanos. re using newspapers is CHEAP FUEL rather than the expensive stuff we get from multi million pound rip off merchants like british gas and powergen

in can-a-duh, most newspaper inks have been switched to vegetable based and non-toxic ones

ok, burning the paper to get rid of it and putting it in a dump are not recycling. However if you live in a home that is heated by a wood stove and you use the paper bricks as a supplement to wood than yes. Instead of cutting down more trees to make heat you are reusing "or recycling" the paper to make heat. The whole reseaon paper is recycled is to cut down "pun intended" on the amount of living trees harvested. So if making the bricks causes you to cut down less trees for fuel than you are recycling the paper.

b. To recondition and adapt to a new use or function

Changing newspaper "entertainment and new" into fire bricks "heating logs"

you could just put it simply: it means you spend less money buying wood and less effort rolling up bits of newspaper to get the fire started in the first place. or its just a cool way to save space in the reclcling bin if you do a lot of recycling. its a contraption that makes paper into square blocks, stop trying to make it politically correct.

and the concerns of inhaling burning ink or chemicals that are used for the printing processes?

might not be recycling but what a great way to get rid of junk mail and if live in a really cold place you could sign up for extra junk mail.

hey ther gilrim just for clarification for you here is a dictionary definition
re·cy·cle (r-skl)
tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles
1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment.
2. To start a different cycle in.
3.
a. To extract useful materials from (garbage or waste).
b. To extract and reuse (useful substances found in waste).
4.
a. To use again, especially to reprocess
b. To recondition and adapt to a new use or function

didnt see anything about non destructive in there

Well, if you want to get technical about it, modern dumps are generally constructed and ran in such a way that the garbage is locked in an anaerobic environment where is won't break down so you won't have any CO2 emissions from it. What's more while it is true that burning newspaper will release CO2 into the atmosphere, the net gain will still be zero if sustainably managed forests are used. The CO2 released from burning will equal that taken up by the trees which will be cut grown and then cut down for the next batch of newspapers. This is in contrast to fossil fuel emissions of CO2 in which the CO2 is not taken up in the production of more fossil fuels.

Recycling merely means using for an alternate purpose, after the lifetime of the product is over. This is infact recycling - if the newspaper isn't burned, then it goes to the dump, and addition trees are cut down in their place. This is actually a rather efficient solution. Try reading up on Life Cycle Assessment some time.

that's not recycling! Recycle means that you take an item and uses it again, in a non-destructive way. You are emitting just as much carbon dioxide by burning the thing, as would be released at the dump.