I was out changing my car and van's oil last night and stored the old oil in a bucket and set it aside. Normally I have always taken my vehicles to a oil change company but I am wanting to do more and more things myself. I have really no clue on where to take my oil except that I know I don't want to just dump it. Does anyone have any tips on where are the best places to drop of your used motor oil?
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Recycling Oil
Started by fuzzyman, Dec 12 2011 09:17 AM
18 replies to this topic
#2
Posted 12 December 2011 - 09:34 AM
Usually the same places where you would get an oil change will take the oil from you for recycling. They're doing it anyway for the oil they collect. Call around to the auto shops and see if they'll take it. Some places have requirements for what kind of container to bring it in but it's fairly common for them to take oil.
#3
Posted 12 December 2011 - 09:56 AM
Yea my husband changes the oil in our cars. He usually take it back to where we used to get our oil changed so that they can recycle. I believe that most of those places to accept it. You should give it a try. Call and ask them.
#4
Posted 12 December 2011 - 10:12 AM
Ok thanks for the great information. I have called around a few different places and they all accept it and will recycle it. This is a wonderful option for those of us who want to do it ourselves but also have the environment in mind. I am going to go drop my oil this afternoon.
#5
Posted 12 December 2011 - 03:05 PM
Not to get a little off topic here, but out of curiosity, how do you recycle oil? What is the specific process, if any? I always thought once oil was dirty (or used) that it was no longer good, as it's not a renewable resource. So by recycling it, do you mean to say that it pretty much just goes with how it's being disposed of or is there other things you can later on use that oil for?
#7
Posted 13 December 2011 - 11:16 AM
JBMedia, on 12 December 2011 - 03:05 PM, said:
......I always thought once oil was dirty (or used) that it was no longer good.....
That's what they used to say. I guess when petroleum was cheaper and when environmental concerns were fewer it wasn't worthwhile to recycle or reclaim.
I don't know the specifics, but I think that a fraction of used motor oil is actually reusable as motor oil again, a fraction has other uses and a smaller fraction has to be disposed of still.
#11
Posted 19 December 2011 - 10:40 AM
kat74, on 19 December 2011 - 05:05 AM, said:
Where I stay there are a lot of ants which destroy all the wooden thing in the compound. So my husband used the used oil to apply on the fence post and that seems to deter the ants from eating up the fence post.
The oil will leach into the ground, and taint that area for years.
Use hot pepper flakes mixed in with water instead.
#12
Posted 21 December 2011 - 06:25 PM
kat74, on 19 December 2011 - 05:05 AM, said:
Where I stay there are a lot of ants which destroy all the wooden thing in the compound. So my husband used the used oil to apply on the fence post and that seems to deter the ants from eating up the fence post.
#13
Posted 21 December 2011 - 07:09 PM
There are lots of communities today that collects their used cooking oil to be re-processed and recycled. How I wish that too would be exercised on our neighborhood. Instead of ending it in the drainage, it should be re-cycled and get the most of it.
#17
Posted 22 December 2011 - 06:10 PM
Shortpoet-GTD, on 22 December 2011 - 04:23 AM, said:
No, it's not a good idea.
Oil will taint the soil for years.
Oil will taint the soil for years.
It's kind of a good idea and bad idea - when using oil on a fence post so that ants don't deter it, you could probably end up covering the soil with something, but then a new question is posed - is it all worth the effort, materials and money to do this, or should you have just gotten something else to deal with the fence post in the first place..
When we see insects in our area, I don't know, but our household has some poison which we can just leave out there in something as simple as a bottle cap and it attracts everything we don't need.
#18
Posted 22 December 2011 - 07:16 PM
So it's really more like re-using oil than recycling. I wonder if there will ever be a way where people can refine their own oil at home and put it back into their cars? Seems like a lot of do it yourselfers would be into something like that.
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