Found a great use for some of my less inspiring pieces. Amazing how well spoked plywood clock gears work as kindling…
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Is this recycling or merely destroying the evidence? 
Suspect it’s more of the latter. I do however have really nice firewood.
I screw my mess-ups to the front of my x-carve bench. Making a collage of cock-ups
Every piece of wood in my shop has an eventual purpose, as a project component, a shop jig, or as a heat source.
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Yep I have a big box of the weirdest firewood ever 
I mention this to a friend and they were like “Noooooo! Give it too me, it can be fixed!”
This amused me because if they wanted something I would just run them a good carve.
But to someone who has not seen what a CNC can do, even the rejects are pretty impressive.
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Of course this leads to the temptation to make a carve project specifically to be burned
“Custom Firewood” 
Like this joke video:
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I tend to run practice pieces in less desirable wood as a proof of file sort of thing.
If they look passable, I work it into a keepsake box or other some such thing and use it as a give away item.
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I sure hope Smoke & Fire are using organic woods…
I don’t think you want to be burning plywood or mdf. You’re not burning wood, you’re burning a pile of wood and large pile of unknown solvent/glue/whatever nastiness.
The items above were pine, jarrah and oak. I’d have to be really really bad to burn enough ply to be a problem…
I try to avoid putting plywood into the wood stove but absolutely no mdf or treated materials go in there.