Patman
Staff member
Back in the early days of my oil changing (the late 80s) I used to walk over to my high school (lived right beside it) and pour the oil in the underground tank beside the auto shop that they used to save their used oil. I am not sure what happened to it from there, whether it was recycled or if the school used it for something.
But soon after that our city opened up a recycling center at their landfill site, and you can drop off as much household hazardous waste as you want (this includes antifreeze and oil filters too) and it costs nothing. At first it was a bit of a pain as they made you dump the oil into the bins yourself and then take the empty jugs to another section, but now you can just put the jugs of oil onto a shelf and they deal with it.
But soon after that our city opened up a recycling center at their landfill site, and you can drop off as much household hazardous waste as you want (this includes antifreeze and oil filters too) and it costs nothing. At first it was a bit of a pain as they made you dump the oil into the bins yourself and then take the empty jugs to another section, but now you can just put the jugs of oil onto a shelf and they deal with it.