If you change your own oil what do you do with the old oil?

 

Look for a used oil recycling facility near you...or take it to a quick Lube place and they may take it. They sell the oil to be re-refined so it should be worth something to them.

 

I believe Pepboys has a drop-off point

 

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.

 

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.

 

i fry the shrimp~~

 

"Ummm Donuts" ... to quote Homer Simpson.

Yup. The Hazardous Waste Dept. in your area will dispose of it.

 

Save it for yourself.

put it in the fidge. Serve Chill.

 

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.

 

If you have a TSC tractor supply, they take used oil. Only recently have they started to limit you to 6 qts. a day.

 

In my area, some gas stations accept used motor oil.

 

I just drink it I mean what gos in must go out right?

 

the storm drain in my appartment complex accepts motor oil

 

http://www.earth911.org/master.asp?s...ceid=1&type=-1

Enter your zip code and this site will give you a list of nearby recycling locations. I take mine to Pep Boys.

 

I dump it in the lake, the gators like to float in it.

 

oh yea....i think they're dead though

 

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.

 

[QUOTE=KeithL] They said in the winter they use it to heat the garage.... QUOTE]

They're cheating the tax man. Better keep a low profile.

 

Quite ironic that you live in Clearwater, Fl.

 

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.

 

yep, that's true. some stores are ******** and tell you they won't take it.

By law they have to. So I just drop it off at their front door. Fkn but holes.

 

take it to a local auto parts store (autozone, advance auto parts, etc) and they will lead you into the back of the store where they have special bins that hold massive amounts of oil. you just dump it in through an opening on the top. you can dispose of the container through them as well if you wish.

 

This was very useful. Thanks for posting.