How To Make Briquettes From Paper or Household Waste

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If you like to have a real fire in your home, have an Aga or a Chiminea, a great way to recycle and save money on fuel is to burn some of your household waste.

However, raw waste will burn quickly, and it means storing a large volume of paper and waste. A better solution is to use your old newspapers, junk mail, scrap paper and household waste to make logs, or briquettes.

There are a couple of different ways to do this, but both involve compressing the waste material into a solid log or brick, and there are some very affordable gadgets available to help you do this.

Paper Logmaker

The first is the Paper Logmaker, which will turn approximately one newspaper into one compact burnable log which will burn for an hour.

For this one you need to soak your newspaper, junk mail and other scrap paper to completely soften it up, than use the logmaker to compress the soggy paper into a solid brick, which can be burnt when it has completely dried out.

There are several different brands available from Amazon.co.uk and B&Q, and if you use an open fire regularly you can buy makers that will make multiple logs at the same time.

Logmaker

The second is a Logmaker from which compresses not only paper but card, garden waste, wood chippings, wrapping paper, junk mail and even dry tea bags into a log wrapped in newspaper. The advantage of this system is that the log is usable instantly as no water is used in the compacting process. These are available from Logmaker

Start making them now while the weather is good and you could have enough to see you right through the winter!

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