Earth Friendly Fire Log, 5 lb, Burns Cleaner Than Wood. (1)

Logs work great and light easily I don’t use them in place of firewood but I break them apart and use them as fire starters fairly cheap and easy fire starting

I am not sure where these unfavorable comments are coming from, but these logs catch easily, burn warm with good flames and last the 3 hours stated. No smell like other "fake" logs or no difficulty trying to start or keep them going.

Wow do these burn HOT! Great for our campfire and safe to roast marshmallows. Minimal smoke was clean smoke. Just note that if the box states 6 burning hours it is for the whole box, not each log.

So clean-doesn't smell at all like other brands. Love it.

Burns great.

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not particularly picky about this sort of thing. My fireplace is literally a hole in the wall with some bricks in the back and a chimney on top. We're not talking Ethan Allen massive glass-fronted gold-plated blah, blah—I just need something to burn.You know, make fire.Now if you're like me, you don't make fire to heat your house. It's purely cosmetic. It's nice to have something "warm and cozy" going over in the corner on a special occasion. So I bought a six-pack of these logs instead of the usual logs I buy because the price was right. Oops.Here's the thing. These aren't made of sawdust bound with wax like the others. They are made of trash bound with wax. As in, boxes, newspapers, wrappers, whatever. Coated in wax and pushed together into a loggish sort of thing.This doesn't immediately set off alarm bells. Sounds sensible, right? What could be more "green" than recycling? Reduce, reuse, recycle, right? But there are problems. Multiple problems. Serious problems.1) They just plain don't start. You'll light the wrapper and it will burn away and then you'll have a pile of trash sitting in your fireplace. Like, it literally looks like someone's trash. Because it is. And you will then struggle for the next 20 minutes to get it to light. You'll burn tons of newspaper underneath, get one of those fire sticks with butane inside and hold it on against the edge of the thing for ages and whatever, and you'll get mayyyybe a tiny smolder... That goes out right away.2) They're ugly as sin. It's trash. I mean, what could be better for ambiance than staring at smoldering trash in your living room? You can read the printing and identify brands and so on on all these shards of trash. It literally looks like you squished your kitchen trash into a sort of small, elongated pile, and tossed it in your fireplace. The guests will love it.3) When you finally do get it started, the fire sucks. Even once it's "burning on all sides" we're talking a one-inch-high flame that is barely perceptible. It will go like that for hours and hours. Not a cheery, bright yellow, lapping flame, but what looks like a slow-burn warehouse trash fire. Not much heat, not much light. The trash itself is ugly, and then the fire is ugly on top of it. For hours. Hooray!4) It's about as environmentally sound as hazardous waste. Okay, let's think about this. Most areas ban the burning of trash, even in wide open areas. Why? Because it smokes a lot, spews a lot of ash, and makes a terrible mess on the ground and in the air. And these are no different. They smoke like a trash fire in your yard, because—let's be honest—they're a trash fire in your fireplace. The amount of smoke is incredible. And as fuel burns away, bits of the paper and cardboard will waft up, black and ashen, into the room or around in the fireplace and finally up the chimney. Just like at any trash fire. Look ma, it's just like back home on the farm when we used to burn off the crud piles!In short, these suck. They make your living room look like a narcotic squat house with a trash fire for warmth going in the corner. The flame itself is anemic and barely enough to provide any heat or light. They take tons and tons and tons of investment on your part to get started burning. And they pollute like nobody's business.If you're looking for an ambiance fire, you've come to the wrong place.If you're interested in experiencing the joys of working class rural America when there's a whole pile of trash to get rid of and you can't afford to fix the truck to drive it to the dump, so you stand around with your friends and a beer and watch a bunch of crap slowly burn and crud up the yard with ash and smoke—well, click away. These are just what you're looking for.*UPDATE*Aaaaand this just happened: See, it's Thanksgiving Day here and one of the things that we tend to do is keep a fire going in the fireplace for the day.Now normally, my seven-year-old daughter looooves having a fire going in the fireplace. But she just came to me about two minutes ago and said, "Daddy, today's fire is ugly and sort of scary. Can I just pour some water in there and put it out?"Sort of sums it up.Not sure I'll burn the other four of these. More likely, they'll go out—with no small hint of irony—as trash. I know, I know, you're not supposed to put flammable stuff in the trash. But it's not like these burn anyway!Worst fire logs ever.

First of all I did not order these through Amazon.The worst logs in the world for keeping a room warm ,"P"eriod. I'd get more out of a tealight candle. They stay lit like a wet chain! They SUCK! Don't buy them. And how are they eco-friendly versus a real log or Dura-Flame I don't know because it looks like they're made out of cardboard and trash so you just burning trash instead of wood, which happens naturally on earth anyways.. that's my take. No ☆'s for value/$$

I love the idea of recycling paper products to warm my house. It's a nice big log so I had high hopes. I'm on the third one. I lit it an hour ago and it's as if there is a candle burning on each end. The previous logs acted the same way so I finally added regular wood at which time they burned enthusiastically. After burning the fireplace is full of what looks like ash in the shape of loads of cardboard, which of course it is. I'm sorry I bought a case of these things.