USED OILS
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CreekyB
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There are programs in most places where you can report people who leave oil trails on the ground. Just as there are programs where you can report people for leaving noxious clouds of oil smoke from exhaust. I can't seem to wrap my head around the amount of resistance that people have in preserving our limited water supply.
Yes years ago it was common to pour it on the ground, polluting yours and your neighbors wells. Just as it was common to vent refrigerants into the atmosphere among many other bad practices. I am no tree hugger by any means but science has pretty much proven that if we continue as we are our grandchildren's grandchildren will have a very different place to live than we do, if not sooner. I take my grandchildren fishing, we eat most of those fish, at least the ones we don't release. I would very much like them to have the option of making memories of eating freshly caught fish with their grandchildren without worrying about growing a third arm or something.
I do use it for burn piles if I have some around and intend to light immediately, cheaper than diesel. I stopped pouring it on fence posts or anywhere else that it can enter the ground a long time ago.
roadhunter
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Not a whole lot we can do about the oil leaking out of our cars as leaks are going to happen, but we can prevent a whole lot of oil getting into our streams, rivers, and lakes by simply recycling our used motor oil.
oldpilgrim
Elite Member
Mixing oil with sand and spreading it over the road..............
It used to be very common, and is still done a bit around here. It is sometimes put on dirt roads (not many left anymore) and other times right on top of paved roads to fill and seal cracks.
It used to be very common, and is still done a bit around here. It is sometimes put on dirt roads (not many left anymore) and other times right on top of paved roads to fill and seal cracks.
CreekyB
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You could make a pretty penny under the EPA whistle blower plan if you know of a Government or Municipality willfully putting oil directly on dirt. Take pictures and call it in.
The "oil" going on to roads is a different animal, usually referred to as Chip Seal or Chip and Seal. It is an asphaltic oil, just thin tar.
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Here in Virginia, you can take to Autozone and Advanced Auto stores. I just took both my extractor container and drain pan there and poured them into their tank in the back. Both were full from 50 hour service.
Used to put in an old steel can and burn in my wood stove. A mechanic friend of mine here drips it into their wood stove heating their garage in the winter.
Ralph
Used to put in an old steel can and burn in my wood stove. A mechanic friend of mine here drips it into their wood stove heating their garage in the winter.
Ralph
jack707
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I use all oil from tractor, trucks to start brush on fire.
dickfoster
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You're in the ROC (Peoples Republic of Californicated) so anyplace that sells the stuff has to take it in for recycle. Same thing with car batteries. If they sell em new they gotta take the old ones too.
dickfoster
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Burn piles is a local and country kinda thing. We can do burn piles here when it's not too dry.
But everyone statewide charges a hazmat fee to take in old tires. They charge you but they gotta take em if they sell em.
