Discarding and Burying?

[CeeCeeChanell]

so i've been thinking and wondering. when your working with candles and the candle burns completely out and there are wax bits of that candle left with no wick or wax that drips off the candle, what do you do with the remaining wax? do you discard it?

along with discarding, I'm from the city and I don't have my own backyard to bury things to discard them (I heard you could discard certain items in plants but I don't have any). how do you discard them? and discard them safely.

I also had a question about burying things. so if a spell called for burying what is an alternative to that if you can not bury something?

[SpiritTalker]

Spent candle stubs, wax & ashes that aren't reused can be put in the regular household trash as useless debris. Re-usable items like decorative jars & stones can be washed & re-used. Soft stones can be set in a dish of dirt or herbs to cleanse. Mixing dry herbs & salt can substitute for a bowl of dirt.

The actions of burning, shredding/scattering on the wind (or above a waste basket), burying or dispersing in water are Element-related forms of disposal (fire, air, earth, water respectively) & sometimes part of the spell itself. That's not the same as how to discard spent debris that has no useful re-purposing.

To select an alternative to burying as part of the spell you need to know what purpose the burial serves to the spell. Then you can decide on an equivalent substitute that maintains the sympathetic magic. Burying in earth & dropping in flowing water are basically equivalent for ashes, biodegradable herbs & food. If something's buried to enact planting & nurturing into bloom & you have no plots of earth or pots of soil, then substituting would spoil the spell's sympathetic symbolism so use a different spell. If burial is used to hide & be undisturbed then tucking the spell in a cupboard or nearby would continue the sympathetic act (ex. Witches Bottle spell.). At any rate, that's how I'd think of it. It's up to the Caster of course because another person might not see any connection at all. If it's not in the mind then it probably has no effect. There's never just one way to do something.

[Corbin]

All the 'leftovers' (with the exception of *fluids and salts) get put away in my small lidded iron cauldron and forgotten about.. to be disposed of as general waste at a later date once the cauldron is full and has done its work; though unlikely, any possible lingering energies are dispersed ... In the same way burial in the earth does over time.

This may seem excessive but every part of the spell / ritual usage is or can be made to hold significance. Its part of the closing ritual, it also has come to represent taking consideration and care over consequences (especially the unforseen ones) .

Ash from incense however I carefully bottle and keep... It's far to useful as a future component to throw away.

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* - Because salt and left liquids effect iron, fluids get poured into the earth or left to evaporate. Salt... Well I used to use rock salt exclusively (now rarely except in charm / protection bottles)... instead I select, collect and dry earth, crumble it down to a powdered form as a substitute for salt. It's also easy to reconstitute and environmentally friendly.