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Around here, the garbage company will pick up gallon milk or water jugs filled with old motor oil and labeled as such, put alongside recycling baskets, every two weeks. I'm sure they never test it to see how pure it is.
My neighbor takes all my oil to recycle. He said it’s all dumped in one tank. I used to have all these separate containers. Now it all gets dumped in my rolling oil drain container and pumped in buckets.
My local auto store takes various fluids but it’s all dumped in one tank. So I don’t get the crazy rule. But whatever I just mix it all together and take it to the haz-mat drop off if it becomes a problem,
Worse comes to worse take it to your local dump. The have a hazardous waste recycle area. You’ll have to leave it in the container. I used to hit up the painters on jobsutes as they had this of buckets. I just washed out all the paint. Or go buy 5 gallon buckets with lids at the hardware store
I buy most of my oil in the 5qt jugs. My POS GMC Envoy takes 7 so it's a jug plus 2. I NEVER throw out my windshield wash jugs....handiest things to have around for things like waste oil, making funnels, etc.
Around here, the garbage company will pick up gallon milk or water jugs filled with old motor oil and labeled as such, put alongside recycling baskets, every two weeks. I'm sure they never test it to see how pure it is.
Around here the garbage company will pick up pretty much anything that you can fit into the trash bin, especially if you can fit it inside of a garbage bag. You didn't hear this from me though.
I buy most of my oil in the 5qt jugs. My POS GMC Envoy takes 7 so it's a jug plus 2. I NEVER throw out my windshield wash jugs....handiest things to have around for things like waste oil, making funnels, etc.
I just carry it in 5 gallon buckets. I don’t like having a bunch of oil containers stacked up everywhere. And I have taken oil back in the cans the new oil came in to have it recycled and they are adamant to take back the containers. It’s too much of a pita. So I just dump it in 5 gallon buckets and take it in that way. It’s a lot of pouring into a drain pan then repour back in the original containers all the while making sure you don’t spill and make a mess. It’s ok if you are good at not making a mess.
In my county, W-M will take containers of oil if left next to the garbage can on pick up day. But I don't know if it's thrown in with the garbage or there's a storage compartment on the truck and they empty them at the garbage dump.
The odds are when they do not accept mixed fluids, they use the oil for heat, and want only oil for that purpose, or they sell it to someone that does. Used oil is great for use as heating oil and a cheap fuel to keep warm cheap.
Emailed the Epa twice asking what should be done with fluids other than oil and they never answered me back. So being a concern citizen in a vary rural area with most being on well water i guess they don't care.
Transmission-fluid is a good top-end cleaner and lubricant...........I just gradually ran
2 extra quarts that I had on hand through my beatervan.
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