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[JoeH]

Racer X wrote:
My neighbor is an electrician, and saves all the wire scraps. Once a year he runs a burn barrel and makes a massive greasy pall in his back yard. His yield usually pays for a 2 night weekend away with his wife. When I found this out, I quit complaining. At least he does it on windy days so it clears quickly.

Do complain, that is an illegal way of doing copper wire recovery as the insulation burning is both a pollutant and potentially poisonous. There are better ways of recovering the copper wire, usually by stripping the insulation. Recyclers will take insulated copper wire, they just pay a bit less for it.