The decision of going green is usually something that's hard to undo when it is made. Still some habits keep chasing us even after we had seemingly changed our lifestyles to eco-friendly. Could you ever have been longing for a big cozy fire roaring in your fireplace or stove, with a circle of friends around it? Or maybe you yearn for marshmallows on a stick when your fireplace serves purely decorative purpose mostly now that you made a firm decision of using the natural resources wisely?
Burning down whole logs when you are not freezing to death in your home is really too much of an unthrifty waste, but wood briquettes offer a wonderful way to solve this problem. This firewood is totally "green" because it basically consists of pressed waste of timber and wood processing industry enterprises - sawdust, cuttings and filings pressed into blocks or granules.
Such blocks are the actual manifestation of recycling in the industry because no trees get cut down just to be burnt in this case. What is needed for the trade is taken and processed and the rest is pressed into blocks and can be used for the very noble purpose of actually warming and feeding you. They burn longer because the pressed wood is already dry and contains hardly any liquid or resin. They are safer for the same reason - a stray splinter won't pique out of the fire into your eye like it may happen with a real log.
Not everyone is good at starting a fire scout-like, using one matchstick only, but pressed wood is easy to put on fire which also saves you time and paper you'd use to dry the logs. The ash left by such fire is also so thin that there is no chance of clogging anything.
Using such burning materials also saves you time you'd have to spend on chopping logs. You can't but agree that ready pieces are safer and cleaner to harvest and store within the limits of your house. Now that you are aware of the fact that there actually is some firewood you can burn down without remorse it looks like it is high time someone finally took out those sausages and marshmallows and fried them well in that fireplace of yours you'd kept empty for months.