You did a good deed. Were there any 1987 Topps in there? That's what I have the most of, so I could use a mass burning of those cards if anyone wants to help out my retirement fund (88 Donruss also helps and I saw some in there, so thank you).
I think there are three acceptable things to do with junk wax cards to get rid of them:
Burning them will help collectors down the line if it happens enough, especially in quantities like you did. You might bring back collectors who still have them stored away, but don't collect cards anymore because they lost money on them back in the day. If they eventually have a small value, that could bring people back.
Giving them away to children. They either start to collect them, which is good for the hobby, or they throw them out, which also helps.
Cutting them up into art pieces like Tim Carroll. His process of cutting (pun intended) the junk wax population is very slow, but I like it the best.
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