[pct-l] disposing of fuel canisters?

[Bob Sartini]

Is flattening a pressurized can a good idea. Maybe boom ! No?

"EVERYTHING is in walking distance,"
    ......Bamboo Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Margavage" <davidmargavage at gmail.com>
To: <mlesswicz at yahoo.com>; <Pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] disposing of fuel canisters?


> Flatten with a rock and in town recycle.
>
> On 1/30/09, matthew lesniewicz <mlesswicz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>> THANKS,
>>              the WIDGET
>>
>>
>>
>>
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