Product Description

Our custom made environmentally friendly Briquette Bands(tm) recycles your waste paper into logs to burn on an open fire or wood burning stove. Help conserve forests, reduce landfill and save on heating costs by using newspaper, junk mail, shredded paper, cardboard, wood chippings, and wrapping paper as fuel. Instructions * Roll the paper / cardboard tightly * Place a Briquette Band(tm) around the rolled paper * Its now ready to burn * Remove the band after the content have burned and reuse!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39022 in Home Improvement
• Brand: eko-mania
• Model: E-M1040
• Released on: 2009-10-27

Features

• Stury Steel Construction
• Free heat from old newspapers & cardboard
• Easy and safe to use
• No need to soak the paper - ready for the fire right away!
• Logs will burn as well as wood for up to a half hour

Manufacturer's Description
The eko-mania Briquette Bands quickly and easily turn your household waste into free fuel for your open fire or wood burning stove.

Briquette Bands are easy to use: simply roll the paper or cardboard tightly, and place a Briquette Band around the rolled paper--it's now ready to burn. Remove the band after the content have burned and reuse.

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Customer Reviews

One of those "I should have thought of that" ideas !
I have a wood burner
I have a paper brick maker ..
I have a dustbin around the side of the house which I put my shreddings into.
I spend time to rip up news papers that next door bring around for me.. After a weeks soaking
I get messy and squeeze the bricks then leave them somewhere to dry,,. all in all such a laborius exercise that i do it once a year in the autumn until it gets to be a pain.
I stop doing it !!

So when I spotted the Briquette Bands I thougth that the idea must be too simple to work.. Last night I dutifully rolled up a couple or three Times suplements and "yammed" on the Steel Band.
I chucked it on the burner which was ticking over nicely... And nothing spectacular happened .. I had you see half expected it to some how unfurl and become a scene from Dante in the living room..

But No it ticked along smoldered then burned for a good time .. differant paper differant length of burning heat ect try the old yellow pages you have kicking around I have !! ( oh and the waste A4 paper that I generate from my office ever week rather than shreading went up in my "tests" last night..

The real world bit is that as a single source of combustion I think you would be out of luck , however combined with either small amounts of wood or coal derivative as base layer this will really cut down on using other fuels.

Yes it does produce quite a lot of ash, yes I did have to fish the bands back out of the fire this morning to "re roll" but thats quite satisfying...

I'm going to order 1 or 2 more sets so that I can have 12 logs prepared so that my wife can chuck them on during the day for free background warmth.... I'll be up and down the road next recycling day to raid the newspaper!!!!

In one night I've had 5 quids fun at the least !

Good but not great
These worked quite well and give off quite a bit of heat, however, they do require a lot of paper per band. I had to roll 3 whole papers (free Metros from the train) per band.

The big downer for me is that the main source of air for my mixed fuel stove is from beneath and the large amount of ash from the masses of paper tends to clog up the air holes.

If you have an open fire then this probably won't be an issue.