Change your own oil - disposal
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Most of your chain parts stores have a big barrel in the back that you can pour your oil in. They require you to take your containers back home with you. You just have to ask.
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Also check with you community's hazardous waste program, usually part of the sanitation department or solid waste management.
Around here, they will take the used oil and other fluids, the used oil filters, the containers and even the oily rags.
No one wants that stuff entering the water supply.
Raptor, thanks for bringing this up.
Around here, they will take the used oil and other fluids, the used oil filters, the containers and even the oily rags.
No one wants that stuff entering the water supply.
Raptor, thanks for bringing this up.
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Didn't the EPA has mandated that any place that sells hazmat must accept the return of the waste product? So, if you sell motor oil, you have to accept used oil back. Autozone, Advanced Autoparts, Napa, etc all accept used oil in my area. I think autozone will only take up to 6 quarts per day.
The same is supposed to go for SLA batteries (the kind that get used in computer battery backup units) but I've yet to find a Best Buy that accepts used ones back.
The same is supposed to go for SLA batteries (the kind that get used in computer battery backup units) but I've yet to find a Best Buy that accepts used ones back.
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Enter your zip code and this site will give you a list of nearby recycling locations. I take mine to Pep Boys.
Enter your zip code and this site will give you a list of nearby recycling locations. I take mine to Pep Boys.
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The guys at the local quick lube took it, but they were kinda dicks about it (made me dump it myself, take away the containers, had to wait to pour it in the pan of an unused bay)...
Then I tried taking it to Dobbs (a local repair chain here) - they snapped it up - take the containers (and asked me if I wanted them back!) immediately. I just drop it off and go. They said in the winter they use it to heat the garage.... It pays to look around for someone who's not gonna give you any guff about it.
Then I tried taking it to Dobbs (a local repair chain here) - they snapped it up - take the containers (and asked me if I wanted them back!) immediately. I just drop it off and go. They said in the winter they use it to heat the garage.... It pays to look around for someone who's not gonna give you any guff about it.
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Seriously though, any advanced autoparts has a bin in the back you can dump oil into.. You don't even have to ask, just go back there and dump. I take mine in cat litter jugs, keeps the oil from splashing around. in my trunk.
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Originally Posted by NotAPreppie
Didn't the EPA has mandated that any place that sells hazmat must accept the return of the waste product? So, if you sell motor oil, you have to accept used oil back. Autozone, Advanced Autoparts, Napa, etc all accept used oil in my area. I think autozone will only take up to 6 quarts per day.
The same is supposed to go for SLA batteries (the kind that get used in computer battery backup units) but I've yet to find a Best Buy that accepts used ones back.
The same is supposed to go for SLA batteries (the kind that get used in computer battery backup units) but I've yet to find a Best Buy that accepts used ones back.
By law they have to. So I just drop it off at their front door. Fkn but holes.
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Originally Posted by Raptor75
If you change your own oil what do you do with the old oil?
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Originally Posted by Josche
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Enter your zip code and this site will give you a list of nearby recycling locations. I take mine to Pep Boys.
Enter your zip code and this site will give you a list of nearby recycling locations. I take mine to Pep Boys.
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