we were cleaning the yard and decided to burn everythingstyrofoam (large carnival prize gorilla x2, pool raft, foam cooler) plastics (many soda bottles, shrink wrap/large tarp, refridgerator drawers, banner material), rubber (large inflatable tubes/rafts, sandals, life jackets etc) and other materials (glass, aluminum lawn chair and all the beer cans we consumed during, wood with lead paint, shoes, towel, fabrics, fiber board, fiberglassWe inhaled much of the smoke accidentally and felt sick and coughed a lotHow harmful is this??? Do I have cancer now?
Aluminum won't rust at all - it forms a tight skin of oxide that protects it from further damageCopper will dissolve over time, the amount of time partly depending on how pure the salt water itRusting iron needs oxygen in the water as dissolved gas (not just the O in H2O
Everything would rust faster in salt waterIt is corrosive.
You won't have cancer yet, but it may well be the tipping point some time laterThese hydrocarbons burn poorly at low temperature, so you've exposed yourself to an unknown cocktail of toxins, plus a whole lot of dangerous carbon particlesBettr burnt in a proper facility so as to get closer to 100% combustionThe lead paint is only part of the metal toxins you've inhaledLots of the other bit will have given you cadmium, lead and others used as fillers in the plasticsReally dumb actHopefully a one-off? Produced a great pall of smoke though I bet?
