Town does an outstanding job acceptance used oil and antifreeze

My city wants $2 a gallon of any fluid. I want the city manager fired. I helped instigate a recall petition for city council place #6 which is causing alot of trouble.

Thankfully AAP folks are extremely nice, just brought in 6 gallons and they waved me by.
 
In all seriousness, do they verify residency? Like if I were to have 3 five quart jugs, or even 5. Yes I live in PA.
Not in my experience. There's an entrance for individuals (vs. say private garbage trucks) and perhaps the guys standing there are watching for out of state plates but I think in 20 years of going there I might have been asked for my license once but that was at the stop where you drop off paint, batteries, chemicals, etc. The guys by the TVs, bikes, paper, oil, metal stuff, and normal garbage have never asked and 99% of the time don't even seem to acknowledge your presence. Another time the paint guy told me that technically I could only drop off 5 gallons at a time or something but he let it slide...

jeff
 
Not in my experience. There's an entrance for individuals (vs. say private garbage trucks) and perhaps the guys standing there are watching for out of state plates but I think in 20 years of going there I might have been asked for my license once but that was at the stop where you drop off paint, batteries, chemicals, etc. The guys by the TVs, bikes, paper, oil, metal stuff, and normal garbage have never asked and 99% of the time don't even seem to acknowledge your presence. Another time the paint guy told me that technically I could only drop off 5 gallons at a time or something but he let it slide...

jeff
Believe it or not, I think the City of Philadelphia (I say that because they don't stop cars for lacking registration, inspection, licensed driver, insurance, or limo tints) accepts all of these things, even CRTs, but apparently proof of residency is required. Seems in the suburbs we're out of luck. There will be bi-annual recycling events at a local place such as a community college, and the line will be 2-3 hours. Bizarre....I truly wish we had recycling available, not just motor oil, but even microwaves and anti freeze and small appliances....
 
My local AZ is the closest place for used oil, been going there for years, easy. Recently I walked in with some jugs, new guy behind the counter says, "what 'cha got'? I replied oil and ATF. He says, "we cannot take ATF". Which I knew was bs. We had a brief conversation and I quickly determined he was not going to allow ATF. So I said fine, let me dump my used oil. I walk back to the used oil container and there is a big sticker on the container that read "Used Oil & ATF Only". I pointed this out to Einstein and all was good.
 
My local AZ is the closest place for used oil, been going there for years, easy. Recently I walked in with some jugs, new guy behind the counter says, "what 'cha got'? I replied oil and ATF. He says, "we cannot take ATF". Which I knew was bs. We had a brief conversation and I quickly determined he was not going to allow ATF. So I said fine, let me dump my used oil. I walk back to the used oil container and there is a big sticker on the container that read "Used Oil & ATF Only". I pointed this out to Einstein and all was good.
Haha that reminded me of Advance Auto in 2009. Brought in a battery purchased 2006 with an 84 mo warranty and they told me it expired. I had some fun with that where security came and I left with my old battery. I’ll just give a hint, I said 2009 minus 2006 is about how many months? I could tell the person really didn’t know. Just like Walmart I could see the girl asking me how many items could not multiply what she saw (I had the bottles in 3 rows, 5,5,4. She said I was over the 15 items limit—she did it to another guy and he just walked out without purchasing)
 
All of our recycling centers have this. Well, there not as elaborate, there some large plastic barrels with a big funnel on top, and labels. They take pretty much everything, oil, antifreeze, old fuel. They are covered with a metal car port sort of thing.

I am unsure why everyplace can't do this. Our county is pretty poorly run. Maybe the state mandates it? Whomever said South Carolina wasn't green doesn't know what there talking about :ROFLMAO:
 
Jealous. Few years ago I moved one town over and this town does not take fluids--prior one did. Walmart isn't that hard to drop waste oil off at, not sure if they take brake fluid (I've temporarily stopped trying to do brake flushes), and last time I did a radiator I paid the garage that I go to $5 to take the 2 gallons or so of antifreeze.

I did drop off some monitors recently and the price had doubled, think it was $20 per? something like that. The guy running the place wasn't happy with the price, as he thought it should have stayed low. Otherwise people would start tossing them out in their backyard or similar. He didn't set the price, it must have been set in a town meeting (probably to reflect the true price of disposal).
 
I’ve seen some people leave jugs of used oil at front door of closed store AAP and AutoZone store.

I guess the employees take it in the morning.
 
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