What do YOU do with the USED OIL ?

[Ankhmaat]

I'd really would like to know what you do with the USED OIL after you drain it, and what do YOU think happens to it !!!

Curious minds want to know if you do NOT mind !!!

 

[NateDN10]

I drain it into a pan, then pour it into the jug the new oil came in. Then I take it to Advance Auto or Autozone and pour it in their waste oil vat. I assume it's either re-refined or used to make asphalt or something.

 

[Silber Igel]

Recycle it at one of the local auto parts stores, Autozone, Advance Auto or O'Railleys. Its picked up by a big truck and put to work somewhere else.

 

[Deltona_Dave]

I drain it into a drain pan, take the pan to the County used oil receptacle near the house, and drain it. They also have a bin for the oil jugs and one for the old oil filters.

 

[Berny]

We have a recycle facility locally and I drop it off there.

 

[Ausfahrt]

I return my oil to recycling centers and I believe that most of it ends up being burned by oil-fired power plants.

And no, I don't mind.

 

[addyguy]

In Canada, Safety-Kleen turns it into re-refined oil.

WM ST, Zellers 'Autolab', and a few others are this oil.

A BIG chunk of it gets turned into ultra-cheap 15w40 HDEO, and that gets put in our municipal buses and work vehicles.

 

[Zaedock]

Given the previous topics you've posted in, and the tone of this one, I'm going to call you out on this as another used car salesman pitch to promote Synlube.

Yeah, we all waste oil, pollute, and damage the environment, while the awesome, green, and non-wasteful Synlube folks send their oil back after 20 years for a refund.

No one here wants Synlube. The only thing I would use it for, would be to lubricate my door hinges. Even then, I'd rather use my old Quaker State sludge.

Thanks.

 

[nfs480]

At the valvoline I work at, our oil is picked up by Safety-kleen where it's rerefined into new motor oil.

 

[ALL_OUT_LS1]

I hauled off 330 quarts last weekend, Walmart could only take 50 at a time, took the rest to Autozone. The oil was all in gallon, 5 quart, and wiper fluid jugs.....looks like there would be a home service for pick up especially if the recycler is making money by refining the old oil.

 

[daves87rs]

I drop it off at one of the part stores...

 

[Jeepster_nut]

I pour it down the storm drain. It runs right into the Long Island Sound- very convenient.




But seriously, I have a 5 gallon jug and I bring it to the recycle plant.

 

[ps49556n]

I use it to shave with every morning....works better than butter!!



I store it in one of those 15 qt plastic drain pans from walmart and when that is full I transfer the oil to containers and bring it to an advanced auto parts or walmart...As a previous user said I have been under the impression that these big vats of recycled oil are burned for fuel for various industrial applications.

 

[heypete]

Wait a second...we're not supposed to go pour it on ducks? Curses!

Seriously, though, I put it in extra containers (either old oil containers, wiper fluid containers, etc.) and take it down to AutoZone or the local Wal-Mart TLE. Wal-Mart also takes oil filters, which is a nice touch.

 

[Samilcar]

I pour it back into my empty Synlube containers, then sell it on Ebay to unsuspecting rubes.



(joking...)

 

[JCCADILLACMOBILE]

Originally Posted By: Ankhmaat
I'd really would like to know what you do with the USED OIL after you drain it, and what do YOU think happens to it !!!

Curious minds want to know if you do NOT mind !!!


I now have 2 5-Gallon Jigs full of Milkshake looking Oil that i will bring to Advance for Oil Recycling.

I dont do anything kinky with it, if thats what you mean.

 

[Roy Gutfinski]

If the used oil is from one of my own vehicles and I know it has not been contaminated by antifreeze, etc., I filter it and use it in a ratio of about 10% in the summer and 5% in the winter with diesel fuel in my Kubota tractor. The new low-sulfur diesel has fairly poor lubricating properties for the injection pump so the added waste oil gives it needed lubrication.

 

[cos]

Drop it off at the auto parts store.

 

[stenerson]

I drop of at the dump. They heat their facility with it.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Pour it into 5 gal "jerry jugs" then take it (~2x/Yr) the three miles to our town garage where they run it in a waste oil burner for winter heating.