Originally Posted by MetalSlug
Originally Posted by supton
I'll have to check with my local transfer station, make sure they will accept waste oil returned in one of these boxes first. If they do, maybe I'll give it a shot, if it's cheaper than Supertech. Only "problem" is, I've got one vehicle that takes 4 quarts (and burns a quart over its 5k OCI), one at 5 quarts, and one at 8 quarts. No biggie but definitely not quite as easy as tipping in single quart containers (but OTOH single quart containers are a nuisance when refilling with waste oil).
why dont you return where ONLY place you can bought it from ? ( Think ).
I've never bothered to look into that--I've always had the transfer station take my oil and antifreeze. On Saturday morning, while wearing grubby clothes, I can take all my waste stuff in. But I usually buy oil from Walmart on the way into work, while I'm neatly dressed. Maybe one of these days I'll ask the auto center how to drop off oil, and if they take waste oil in this box. Means two trips to Walmart but that's not huge work I guess.
For a while it was great when I had a vacuum extractor, as the transfer station had a tank where I could dump the oil into. No need to refill old bottles. Was sad when they got rid of the tank.
I think my town used to sell the waste oil, or give it to local shops for burning--I should ask about that too.
Edit: now that I think about it, in 25 years or so of changing oil, I might never have returned oil to the store I bought it from--always went to the transfer station. Heck for the 11 years I owned my VW, I bought my oil online! no way was I going to ship oil back to the online vendor!