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open burning  

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  • Open burning involves burning any material or substance, including garbage, wastepaper, wood, vegetable material, or other flammable material, in the ambient air or any open premises such as a public street, alley, or other land adjacent to such premises. Burning in a receptacle where emissions are released directly to the air without passing through a chimney or smokestack is also considered a type of this process. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Open Burning]

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