Thanks for your insight. Just to add a few .... we didn't have much trash and what we did have was burnt, filtered and was mixed into the dirt pile. When we were finished with furniture or it had worn out, we put it in the ditch out back. When the ditch was full, it was burned; and after several burnings, brush and dirt was piled on top ... our own personal landfills ... we didn't notice the any odors. We didn't have a lot of plastic and what we did have was used, reused, and reused again. No we certainly were not GREEN ... that was the Martians!