I live in Alaska and we already burn our garbage, used pallets, sawdust and junk mail to keep warm.
We live in Minnesota and my inlaws do the same. The have only woodstoves, no other way to heat their house.
Must be a lot of chimney fires from all the creosote and whatever other nasties can be in some of that stuff.
Us, too. We’re in the South, but it still gets cold here,
too. FANG cuts down dead trees and also trees that have
been felled by storms. He got an automatic log splitter
several years ago and that has been VERY helpful. We pick
up sticks and small limbs and also use crumpled newspapers
to layer the fire to get it started. I compost & have for
30 yrs., so they just as well shut up at me about composting
being “bad” for the environment.