[pct-l] disposing of fuel canisters?

[Suzannah Swinehart]

I'm not sure quite what you mean by "mailing them home and disposing of later". My guess is that you're talking
about throwing the canisters in the trash vs. recycling them. To me it seems that they are made to be disposable, 
i.e., trashed. While I love my PocketRocket, my one discomfort with using it is that I hate the idea of throwing 
so much metal in the trash from an experience that was while "getting back to nature". It seems oxymoronic. 

So I called my local recycling plant last year to find out if these can be safely recycled. I never got a clear 
go-ahead...they generally seemed very uncomfortable with the idea of the pressurized container, combined with 
the fact that it had been used to hold fuel...but in the end someone admitted that if I took the danger of 
puncturing them upon myself, then they didn't amount to much more than regular steel.

I haven't tried this yet. I have, sadly, just kept throwing them away.

But maybe that's not where your discomfort lies. As far as the general idea of discretely throwing away your trash
in a trail town, I do not see a problem with that...there are plenty of public places to dispose of a small amount
of trash. Heck, if you need to, I bet you could walk into a business and offer to give them the postage you'd be 
spending if they'd let you toss your stuff there.

-Chipmunk


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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:07:42 -0800 (PST)
From: matthew lesniewicz <mlesswicz at yahoo.com>
Subject: [pct-l] disposing of fuel canisters?

 
I will be using canisters as well. But also going to to keep an alcohol stove in my bounce box as a back up. 
My concern is actually disposing of the canisters along the trail/towns. Is this something that will need to 
be mailed out back to home every time and dealt with later? I know the quick fix would be to throw them in the 
trash discretely but something doesn't seem right with that. For anyone carrying canisters how do you go about 
this?
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