Fluid Disposal
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Laughing Gas
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Fluid Disposal
So what does everyone do with their old oil, 90 weight, transmission fluid and so on? Do you take it to some kind of recycling center or perhaps do you (shhhhh) pour it out by the house?
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well me and my dad have a welding/repair shop and the farmers usually yake or old oil/fluid and use it to lubricate chains and gears on farm equipment or we take it out back and dump it on weeds that we need to get rid of.
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Walmart has a reclaim tank behind their auto "service" departments. Pull in, dump the jugs, and toss the empties into their dumpster. Autozone takes back oil also. You'll regret dumping it by the house, poisons the soil.
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I think in NJ by law any place that sells oil or antifreeze has to have a method to collect used oil/antifreeze thats ready to recycle. I know a few garages and parts stores around here have large drums that you dump your used oil/antifreeze in.
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east command gets poured into a gundrill as coolant oil, west command gets reused for non critical lubing or weed control.
I never changed major oil into the dirt but thats how I do my lawnmower, I couldnt get the plug out so i just flip it over once its out of gas....I usually rinse crankcase with gas and flip it over again...anti freeze usually goes directly to the ground, however I spary or dump 5 gallons of water and keep the animals away from that area for a while..........save the earth
I never changed major oil into the dirt but thats how I do my lawnmower, I couldnt get the plug out so i just flip it over once its out of gas....I usually rinse crankcase with gas and flip it over again...anti freeze usually goes directly to the ground, however I spary or dump 5 gallons of water and keep the animals away from that area for a while..........save the earth
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Yeah, what about antifreeze.
I used to flush it into the city water but that was probably bad. Now that I'm on septic-no way. Don't want to have it pumped.
Is it real bad in the soil?
I've thought about switching to the less toxic propylene glycol (food perservative) stuff so it should be easier to get rid of.
I used to flush it into the city water but that was probably bad. Now that I'm on septic-no way. Don't want to have it pumped.
Is it real bad in the soil?
I've thought about switching to the less toxic propylene glycol (food perservative) stuff so it should be easier to get rid of.
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Oil goes in milk jugs and the garbage man takes it away to the waste-to-energy plant. They burn it and make electricity. Antifreeze goes in the gutter; it soakes down into a crack between the street and the curb.
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I hope you guys that are dumping it on the ground don't have wells! Where do you think that stuff goes? It moves through the soil an into an aquifer. Sure it is probably OK if it is just you or you and the guy next door doing it, but what if everyone did it? It is not that hard to put it in a milk jug and drop it off at the store next time you buy more oil. What was that old saying, "We all live down stream". I'm not a tree hugger (far from it), but I can't see any sense in dumping used oil on the ground??? You probably pee in the pool too, don't you?
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Well, I've been dumping it near the house (actually many different houses over the years) since I loosened my first drain plug. As a kid I worked at a marina on Lake Washington and we thre all our old oil cans in the lake (ouch, that one really brings out the guilt). Anyhow, lately I have noted sidelong glances from my youngest and the guilt is welling to the surface. New Year's resoluiton: off to some recycling place next time. Thanks.
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