February 11, 2007 at 4:41 pm
#21456
Anonymous
I don’t know about using shreds, as I think it would be messy and send bits of burning embers–I send my shredded paper to the Michigan Humane Society, where they use it to line cages. I do remember seeing a method to make fire logs out of sheets of newspaper, but I don’t have it on hand. You stacked the sheets of newsprint and rolled it up, tied the roll with twine, then soaked the log in soapy water and set aside to dry. This process compressed the papers together and made for a longer-burning log.