Good Morning folks. I take my used oil filters and the used filters from the gf and her daughter’s car and cut them open. If I’m lazy I take them to work and crush them.
What do you do with your used oil and air filters?
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We have a collection area at the local garbage transfer station. You drive up and dump the oil filters into 55 gallon drums that are situated next to the used oil tanks and used antifreeze tanks. Although I’ve seen videos on incineration and crushing, I have not determined if that happens with these. Air filters go into the garbage. I don’t cut oil filters but can understand why some do. 
Air filters are common trash . I fill my old oil filters with oil-dri and put them back in the box , then in the trash .
Cut them open, drain them and chunk them in the trash. Sometimes I'll cut the elements apart, usually not.
Our only option is over 10 miles away at a county owned collection site. I took some old oil there once. Won’t go back after seeing how they allow nuts, bolts, nails, and sharp metal debris to be left in the driveway to the disposal area. I’m not going to ruin my Michelin tires and waste an hour in traffic to “properly dispose” of oil. The parts places and garages won’t take oil. Mine goes in the oil containers and filters in the filter box and in my recycling can. The trash pickup company will sometime cull a container and leave it in my can but it stays in there for the next weeks collection run. Maybe they dump it in the county’s tank. Again, I’d do it but not at a cost of ruining my tires.
I recycle my oil at Advance Auto, and or Auto Zone. The oil filters go into the trash after I cut them open and review.
Some oil change places take both the oil and the filters. I've used a Firestone and a Jiffy Lube.
I have about 45 gallons of used mix hydro and motor oil in a drum for a future diesel engine project. I have a small yanmar 1 cylinder water pump that is in the queue to be rebuilt and might tolerate it. The rest goes to advance auto, they dont really care about limits.
Future engine project? Can’t wait.
Wonder if any folks here know that oil filters that are not crushed are technically hazmat. I was told this guy a scrap/metal yard near me where me and my friend take our old oil filters.
I have to ask my county dump if I can put cut up oil filters in the bin.
Used oil and oil filters go to O'Reily's for recycling.
https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/whats-at-your-oil-recycling-station.400100/#post-7377862
Air filters get thrown in the trash.
Air filters get thrown in the trash.
Great idea! We actually have some new renters next door. Sadly, if I chucked filters in their yard it would probably improve the place's appearance. I don't want to encourage them to stay, though.
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Great idea....
Trash.
I might burn them next go around. I love the smell over partially burned polymers and used motor oil in the AM.
I might burn them next go around. I love the smell over partially burned polymers and used motor oil in the AM.
