What to do with used oil?

Birdibus · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: What to do with used oil?

I was wondering what everyone does with their used motor oil? Can I take it to an auto parts store for recycling? I'm in California.
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Bart · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

local recycling center. Walmart has also let me empty it in their tank.
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blarneyman · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject:

You might check with your local garbage/recycling pick up service. Some of them will take it for you. I just fill 2L pop bottles and mark it "used motor oil" and leave it at the curb.
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bugntjw · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject:

Where I am, Central California, I can either take it to a local parts place, oil change places, and the county here has a drop place on Fridays (Stanislaus County).
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stevo · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

in eugene it gets taken away in a milk jug every other week with glass and paper recycling. otherwise, the county dump takes it free if for some reason one can't wait. its enough to make you want to change your oil all the damn time. its a pretty advanced recycling town. before that i'd take it to a gas station where they'd have a dedicated 55 gallon drum. of course them were the good old days when gas stations meant cans of oil stabbed with a spout.
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bugninva · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject:

heat your garage with it.
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Birdibus · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject:

Air pollution is a serious problem here, so I wouldn't feel right burning it. A friend of mine used to fire his kiln with it, though, up in Surrey, B.C. Besides, I have no garage. I probably need to make some calls. 'Bep Poys' perhaps?
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insanitize · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:51 am Post subject:

In NYC any place that changes oil is required to take waste oil free of charge.

obus · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:19 am Post subject:

insanitize said:

seans67 · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

The harbor has oil dumps, that's where most of mine goes. It does work good for getting a nice fire going when I am clearing brush around my property.

I worked in a shop in Nome that had an oil burner, that thing really cranked out the heat but you had to watch what else might have gotten in the used oil.
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iowegian · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:38 am Post subject:

Long ago (40+ yrs) I worked in a general repair garage. The lot was dirt/gravel. We'd dump the drain oil on the ground, creating sort of a "poor man's blacktop".

I don't think you can do that today.

ScottK · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:48 am Post subject:

You can, you just don't want to get caught doing it. (Not that I would condone such activity, mind you.)

dantrefethen · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:39 am Post subject:

I use it for chain saw bar oil.

Here in Boise curb side recycling will take.

Schucks auto parts will also take it.

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TristanM · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:41 am Post subject:

When I lived in Cali I took all my oil to Autozone...after a while they knew me well that I would just walk into the back and dump it into the bin. IIRC they would ask how much I dumped and I would get a small cash refund.
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KTPhil · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject:

Check with your local City or County offices, even online. In the City of LA, you can find your local recycling center at:
http://www.lacity.org/SAN/solid_resources/special/hhw/safe_centers/index.htm

Most cities/counties have services like this now.

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Years ago I had a neighbor that would take all my oil and his and strain it for reuse. He had this God-awful contraption made from pvc pipe, a stack of toilet paper rolls, stuffed inside a 6" galvanize piece of duct, with a pan on top and a bucket below. Dump the oil in the pan and it would filter through the TP and come out clean oil in the bucket. Every once in a while he would pull the top roll and insert a fresh one at the bottom. Claimed that oil never went bad, it just got dirty. Laughing


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