Why don’t people recycle their old oil?

[Shannow]

Canberra had it sorted.

The tip had an oil collection facility, comprising an old stainless school trough with a couple of bars across it to support the bottles/drums as they drip drained. Pumped it back into a tank, and away it went. You got nothing for it, but it cost you nothing.

Sitting next to it was a handful of 20l steel drums.

We'd turn up with a full drum, upend it, grab an empty and go. Someone down the track got our drum.

They quickly got to 90% DIY recovery.

 

[Chris71]

I recycle mine at Advance Auto Parts. They have a big probably 500 gallon container on wheels in the back part of the store by the overhead door.

 

[Volvohead]

I give ours, 5 gallons at a time, to my mechanic buds.
Keeps them toasty warm all winter.

I suspect there's not so much outright ground dumping as there is bottled disposal in the trash. Then it winds up in the landfills along side the pampers, low level nuclear waste, and other hazmats for the next 500 years.

 

[Steve S]

Originally Posted By: Panzerman
You mean dumping it back in the ground isnt recycling it? I thought that is where it came from...Silly me.
Good point ,It did come from the earth.

 

[Steve S]

Can't believe anything calif. gov puts out . Arnold and his politician buddies poop from their mouths every time they open them.

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: Volvohead
I give ours, 5 gallons at a time, to my mechanic buds.
Keeps them toasty warm all winter.

I suspect there's not so much outright ground dumping as there is bottled disposal in the trash. Then it winds up in the landfills along side the pampers, low level nuclear waste, and other hazmats for the next 500 years.


That's where ours end up. We aren't supposed to put oil bottles in the recycle bins for collection. Oddly, our plastics aren't really recycled. They're cached at the landfill in select spots. I think way too much material is generated from normal petroleum production that we'd end up with a glut of polymers without a purpose. Most of WM is imported plastic. What are we going to do, send it back to China?

 

[KA426]

I recycle about half of my used oil. The other half I give to a farmer to lubricate his machinery so he doesn't have to buy fresh oil.

 

[Steve S]

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Most of WM is imported plastic. What are we going to do, send it back to China?
Good idea and I will add to the thought WE can study the ocean currents and dump the waste into the ocean and the waste should end up in China. Kind of what they do to us.

 

[Tempest]

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What are we going to do, send it back to China?

And other places:
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/06/mm0692_10.html

 

[Mobile_Oilguy]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Originally Posted By: Volvohead
I give ours, 5 gallons at a time, to my mechanic buds.
Keeps them toasty warm all winter.

I suspect there's not so much outright ground dumping as there is bottled disposal in the trash. Then it winds up in the landfills along side the pampers, low level nuclear waste, and other hazmats for the next 500 years.


That's where ours end up. We aren't supposed to put oil bottles in the recycle bins for collection. Oddly, our plastics aren't really recycled. They're cached at the landfill in select spots. I think way too much material is generated from normal petroleum production that we'd end up with a glut of polymers without a purpose. Most of WM is imported plastic. What are we going to do, send it back to China?


Here is what can be done and you can make millions and be a local hero on top of all that!!
http://www.globalfinest.com/tech/
It doesn't produce harmful emissions, is self contained and self sustaining and just needs a babysitter to watch it make you money, easy to upgrade and expand modularly, and has a very small footprint.... It only cost about $4.5 mil to get it up and running - - - - Who's in??

Oilguy

 

[Gary Allan]

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It only cost about $4.5 mil to get it up and running - - - - Who's in??


I'd love to jump in. But the NIMBY'S will kill it and the Sheriff of Rottingham will come to collect his tribute to the throne.

 

[Mobile_Oilguy]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
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It only cost about $4.5 mil to get it up and running - - - - Who's in??


I'd love to jump in. But the NIMBY'S will kill it and the Sheriff of Rottingham will come to collect his tribute to the throne.


You could present the idea to a city or community as a way to reduce material in landfills that will not decompose, but just take up space... and save the community and tax payers a huge amount of tax money that could go toward other needed projects...

It could also be sold as a renewable fuel source and qualify the plant for Federal and State funding or a reduced tax burden on the sale of the fuel...
How much Federal money goes in to useless biofuel production now that is only serving to increase food and stock feed prices which punish the end users??
This plant will generate Jobs in the community and roughly 132 Gallons per Hour of ultra low sulfur diesel from materials that would be a nuisance and a hazard if dealt with any other way.

That equals $627 an hour at $4.75 a gallon... How much will you have to pay for raw materials?? Pretty good profit margin!

I think it could be an easy sell here in the states especially the way the environmentalist have things so bungled up right now.

OG

 

[Gary Allan]

I would say that if something like that was used in conjunction with a trash to steam plant ..where you've already got all the haulers coming to your door with everything ..in some integrated recycling program ...then it would do well.

 

[Kestas]

Why couldn't Californians dump their oil in the La Brea tar pits?

 

[Tempest]

Originally Posted By: Kestas
Why couldn't Californians dump their oil in the La Brea tar pits?

Then you have man made pollution polluting the natural pollution.

 

[oilyriser]

If you steam open the caps on the new bottles, you can pour the used oil back in, and steam them shut again so as not to break the little seal ring, then take them back to Wal Mart for a refund...

 

[demarpaint]

I recycle mine, goes into empty 1 gallon plastic bleech bottles and I take it to the local auto parts store. Not a big deal at all. The empty quart bottles go into the recycle bin for collection.

Frank D

 

[John_K]

Originally Posted By: oilyriser
If you steam open the caps on the new bottles, you can pour the used oil back in, and steam them shut again so as not to break the little seal ring, then take them back to Wal Mart for a refund...


So this is why the Walmart chick looked at the seal on my oil the last time I took it back! (No it wasn't opened.)

John

 

[02zx9r]

I always recycle my oil. When I lived in Florida, some [censored] put a gallon milk carton in the dumpster filled with oil, i took it out and took it to pep boys for him

 

[eljefino]

Originally Posted By: oilyriser
If you steam open the caps on the new bottles, you can pour the used oil back in, and steam them shut again so as not to break the little seal ring, then take them back to Wal Mart for a refund...


If you look closely at the threads on an oil bottle cap they're little wedges so while you need to unscrew them lefty loosey, you can just jam the things on from above. Steam may make it easier.

Not suggesting fraud, but there are those who want to know how toothpaste gets in the tube...