user22161
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Need to find a way to dispose of sawdust now that Conwy Council is charging £4/bag for small builders bags of DIY materials at skip depot. Is sawdust containing mdf & chipboard dust safe for small pets?
Sawdust for Pets?
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novocaine
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what would you feed a sawdust pet?
does it live in a cage or a bowl?
(the way this world is, I think you'd get complaints about using sawdust from man made boards for pets, because pets are the most important thing ever)
does it live in a cage or a bowl?
(the way this world is, I think you'd get complaints about using sawdust from man made boards for pets, because pets are the most important thing ever)
thetyreman
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are you serious? MDF and chipboard dust is lethal and highly toxic, can't see it being good for animals, it's a lot finer than real wood sawdust...
MattRoberts
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Our council charges for building waste (hardcore, plasterboard etc) too, but I'd be sticking sawdust and wood chips in the garden waste section which is free.
Keith 66
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Black sack, sorted!
transatlantic
Boom!
Asside from the MDF and chipboard not being safe, the particles are too small. When people think sawdust for animals, they're thinking of the larger chippings, like you buy from the pet store
Lazurus
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Bung in on the garden, or the neighbors garden for mulch, or ask a local land owner permission to fly tip a bag of saw dust at a local farm, rots away in no time...... but do ask first.
user22161
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You can be as insistent as you like but won't get away with it. The charges levied will lead to a vast increase in fly tipping - http://www.conwy.gov.uk/en/Resident/Rec ... tres1.aspx
GarethsWorkshop
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Burning bin? or workshop heater as compressed logs?
stuartpaul
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Are you serious?!!thetyreman":2xwzfvpa said:
If it’s as lethal and highly toxic as you state then we are surely all doomed! :roll:
Perhaps you might like to qualify that statement just a teeny bit?
thetyreman
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stuartpaul":nyxmt42e said:
I'm serious yes, it should be obvious.
user22161
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thetyreman":ia4yqn8i said:
If it is as "lethal and toxic" as you infer, it would be banned, just like asbestos, which we played with as kids.
I read all the scaremongering exaggeration about just what's going to kill me and think back to the years of smog I breathed in from coal fires and industrial pollution, the hundreds of brake drums I've blown out with airlines, plus welding fumes, cellulose paint spray, chipboard and MDF dust and 55+ years of smoking. According to the "experts" I and many of my generation should already be dead several times over, instead of being in our 70s now.
stuartpaul
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Well it isn’t so would you care to shed some light on your comment?thetyreman":1pst6q1p said:
Well for me it's better safe than sorry. It's no effort to recycle it.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/woodworking/faq-mdf.htm
My local council has got stupid with it's charging policy for recycling as well.
However, we have to pay an annual charge for compost bins emptying, so I just mix my dust up with that from time to time. Mind you, it is
only a hobby for me but I get 100 lites or so every few weeks when on a project, sometimes more, sometimes less.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/woodworking/faq-mdf.htm
My local council has got stupid with it's charging policy for recycling as well.
However, we have to pay an annual charge for compost bins emptying, so I just mix my dust up with that from time to time. Mind you, it is
only a hobby for me but I get 100 lites or so every few weeks when on a project, sometimes more, sometimes less.
novocaine
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mix it all with 5 litres of PVA, once it's set you can cut it into little bricks and chuck it on the fire. if you aren't sure then use a resin instead. 
(please don't do this really, it's a waste of glue)
(please don't do this really, it's a waste of glue)
