Environmental awareness and sustainability are the driving forces behind the concept of Alberto S. Perea’s pecan shell fire logs.

Mr Perea is the founder of Perea Farms, a company which offers a firelog made up of recycled pecan by-products and recycled newspapers.

The pecan shell firelogs are 99% recycled material.

The use of pecan shells offers a replenishable by-product source which saves trees.

The logs burn with less ash,creosote & smoke, making them an aesthetically pleasing & environmentally sane alternative to firewood.

A number of tests have been conducted on pecan shell firelogs: This type of log were tested by Shelton Research Inc. of Sante Fe, who measured particulate matter (PM) and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions in a “typical open factory-built fireplace with a standard grate.” When compared to “green oak and dry oak logs over a comparable cold-to-cold test cycle, the pecan fuel was cleaner both with respects to PM and CO emissions.”

Stated Conclusions of Shelton Research Inc:
“The emissions from the pecan fuel burned in an open fireplace were significantly lower than the emissions from ordinary wood burned in an open fireplace at a typical high burn rate. The emissions from the pecan fuel were slightly lower than that from both green and dry oak logs burned at a relatively low rate.”

“When burned in the open fireplaces, the PM and OC emissions were over 90% less than in the average emissions obtained for the baseline fireplace in our recently completed fireplace research project for Colorado.”