Where or how do you guys recycle old engine oil?

[Benhameen]

Just as the title says, but it would include hydro/trans oil.

I have a lot that i need to get rid of from a hydraulic problem on the JD I have. Plus my 50 hour service is due, along with oil from lawn mower, motorcycles, 4 wheelers, etc...

Any thoughts?

 

[300zx]

Most of our automotive repair shops (in my area of VA) are burning recycled oil for heat in the winter and get a tax break for doing it with approved burners. The one I use has two 1000 gal tanks where they collect oil during the warmer months and then burn during the colder months. I have also heard that there is a business in our area now buying old oil for recycling purposes. Before these, I just took mine back to Autozone. They limited me to 5 gal which was sometimes a problem for me. I also use old oil to burn brush piles.

John in VA

 

[GWD]

Most cities have a recycling center nowadays. Call City Hall and ask or go online to the city's website.

If you have trash pick-up then they usually have a large oil recycling place where there is no restriction on the amount. Also can be sourced online.

Lots of auto parts stores also accept used oil. If they will only accept 5 gallons at a time then make the rounds of several stores.

 

[Stubbyie]

Local independent oil change shop.

Will take everything that's brought in and resells it to a bulk collector weekly. Motor oils, hydraulic oils, even antifreeze.

For our cars and light trucks up to 1-ton I buy oil in bulk at warehouse stores or Co Op and the filters I prefer (Baldwin) and for $10 labor the shop does the work and handles the mess.

Much easier for us and worth the trip to town compared to the time it would take us scootin' around on a creeper and sweeping cat litter. Barn cats kept gettin' in the way too. Nothing worse than a freshly oiled cat loose in the shop.

 

[Benhameen]

Thanks for the replies, but keep them coming.

I used to take it to a car dealership that i worked at but they closed.

I've used some to start brush fires as well, just don't have enough brush left to burn.

The town I live in has about 800 people in it and I know the mayor. There is no recycling of oil in Hurst. Even on the spring and fall clean up days when you can throw out pretty much everything else. Our county does a county wide clean up day once or twice a year to keep people from dumping off on the back roads. They don't take it either.

Any Kubota dealers out there take it? I'll call mine today to see if they do and post what I find out.

Happy earth day!!!

Thanks Ben

 

[TripleR]

Our Kubota/NH dealer takes all of ours, they have a 1000 gallon storage tank and use it to heat their facility.

 

[skeets]

I use mine for the chainsaw chain oiler. I have been using use motor oil and hydro mixed with motor oil and trannie lube and primary case oil for at least 30 years. And as of todays date not had a problem with a chain or oiler or lost a bar, the oil just get tossed off when the chain goes around and rubbed off on the wood anyway,, just MHO you understand

 

[Stumpy]

Most oil changes places these days send their waste oil to a recycler to be reprocessed back into motor oil. Ask around. We had an local trucker who changed his own oil drive right into the bay and empty several gallons of oil from the bed of his pickup truck every month. While we were only suppose to accept used motor oil we took just about every thing that could be called oil. I believe many auto parts stores take it these days as well.

 

[Eric McCarthy]

Yep, yep, yep and yep. I agree with the above.

 

[Kubota BX 1860]

I take mine to Walmart...and they took the hydraulic oil I had after my 50 hr service, too.

 

[Bulldog]

I thought you were suppose to fill up old drums and let them set around the house like markers.

 

[Benhameen]

That's funny, because I have 6 five gallon buckets of used oil in my geeeerage right now.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[Lil Foot]

Just don't do what a guy in the subdivision where my cabin is did..... he had several years of used oil to dispose of, so he thought he would spray it on the gravel road in front of his place to keep the dust down. Bad idea. He is now facing fines, cleanup costs, & jail time..... he's got about a dozen county, state, & federal agencies after his rear end.

Around here, (Phoenix area) all the auto parts retailers (O'Reilly's, Pep Boys, Auto Zone, Napa, Car Quest, etc) will take your used oil, as do many lube places.

 

[hodge]

I either take it to Autozone, or a local shop uses it in a waste oil heater in the winter.

 

[Ridenbug]

Mix it with diesel and use it as fuel.

 

[Bulldog]

Mix it with diesel and use it as fuel.

Plan to buy fuel filters by the case.

 

[Eric McCarthy]

Mix it with diesel and use it as fuel.

If you're taking old nasty oil out of the engine to replace with fresh... why in the hell would you want to dump it in the fuel tank and put it right back into the engine?!?! Why bother to change the oil at that point...

 

[Stumpy]

It's possible but it's more trouble than it's worth in my opinion. As Bulldog alluded to used engine oil contains lots of tiny metal particles suspended in it and those would probably not do good things to the injection pump. The engine is less sensitive to these particles than the pump which relies on very tight tolerances to built the pressure necessary for injection.

Engine oil filters remove around 99% of particles 30 microns and bigger and about 50% (called nominal filtration) of the particles at the 15-20 micron level. The average fuel filter is good for 5-10 microns nominal but diesel fuel isn't suppose to have high quantities of metal particulate in it. If you want to run used motor oil through your fuel system you'll need to do better. Two passes through separate cleaning pump and filter down to at least 5 micron 99% efficiency would be the minimum I'd be comfortable with before putting that through my pump.

Burn it in something not so sensitive to particle size like a waste oil heater or better yet take it some place and get it recycled. The oil itself can be reused a long time if it's cleaned properly and the additive packages replaced.

 

[number9]

Just don't do what a guy in the subdivision where my cabin is did..... he had several years of used oil to dispose of, so he thought he would spray it on the gravel road in front of his place to keep the dust down. Bad idea. He is now facing fines, cleanup costs, & jail time..... he's got about a dozen county, state, & federal agencies after his rear end.

Around here, (Phoenix area) all the auto parts retailers (O'Reilly's, Pep Boys, Auto Zone, Napa, Car Quest, etc) will take your used oil, as do many lube places.

That used to be common place around home when I was growing up, everyone did that.

I just pour mine down the toilet

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[Lil Foot]

I just pour mine down the toilet

Be sure to rinse it down with your old anti-freeze.