How a Firepit Can Be Easy on the Environment

Posted by Rolf Joho on May 5th, 2010 filed in Global Warming

Some environmentalists will say that fire pits are in no way helpful to the environment. The obvious plume of smoke that comes from most fires can indeed obscure the good points, but there are several reasons that using an outdoor fire can actually be better than the alternatives.

The clearest environmental advantage to a fire pit is that it uses renewable resources – typically wood. Besides this, it’s easy to fuel the fire with wood scattered on the ground. You can just collect it when you need it. Removing unhealthy trees encourages natural growth for all plant life, and lowers the impact on the environment. Another benefit is that fuel is no longer trucked between locations, and this saves a lot of resources.

Also, fire pits are more efficient than cooking appliances that use electricity, which, generally speaking, tend to use electricity even when not in use. If you use wood in your fire pit, there is not waste as nothindg is used until you light the fire. If you use the sticks that were burnt from the last fire to light this new one, there will not be any waste.

There are people who believe that charcoal grills are bad for the environment but a gas grill is more eco-Friendly.   Propane and natural gas and the two main types of these. You might be dismayed to learn how many resources get consumed to deliver either of these fuels to your grill. When you figure in the pollution that is produced by refineries and trucks, gas-fired grills are much worse for the environment than originally thought. With a fire pit, after all, the only energy spent moving the fuel around is the calories it took for the person to carry it over to the site. You can collect wood from fallen branches rather than wasting gas by transporting it from far away.

The fire pit can provide a sense of communing with nature. Most wood comes from well, the woods.  Those trekking to get some wood will get a good perspective on what it is like. This always serves to let us know that we, as humans, are an important part of nature and not apart from it.

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