Fluid Disposal
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Fluid Disposal
didnt know exactly where to put this topic so i stuck it here, sorry if its in the wrong place 
k with used motor oil i usually take mine to walmart where they have those used oil containers and places to put hte old filters, but what about other fluids?
how do you dispose of used:
are any of those safe to just flush down the drain? or are there special places to take those fluids.
k with used motor oil i usually take mine to walmart where they have those used oil containers and places to put hte old filters, but what about other fluids?
how do you dispose of used:
- transmission fluid
- brake fluid
- radiator coolant
- any other fluid i may have missed
are any of those safe to just flush down the drain? or are there special places to take those fluids.
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Contact your local wastewater treatment facility. They often have places to dispose of those things since they DO NOT want most of them in the sewers. The only thing I have found among automotive fluids that they want in sewers is antifreeze. Apparently the sewer bugs in the treatment plants like the stuff.
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From: central ohio
i used to dipose of waste oil in my chevy-really. i had a 3/4 ton with a oliver diesel tractor muffler that was huge, id just run a hose into the muffler ans with a boat primer bulb pump oil out of the drain pan into the muffler, it would hold over a gallon. then on the way to work early in the morning, id burn it off. talk about fogging for mosquitos! one time i forgot id filled the muffler with oil and went into town in broad daylight, got about halfway there when the smoke started to roll. glad a cop didnt see it. it was funny to see peoples faces as they watched me go by. now i just save my oil for dads farm truck. it has pinholes in the oil pan and you have to add oil every time you drive it. used oil is better than no oil. antifreeze i just use to kill weeds with.
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Racsan, the EPA would just love you...
Please show a little consideration for the rest of us that have to live on this planet.
Please show a little consideration for the rest of us that have to live on this planet.
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i have to agree guys back in the day before we knew the results that came from dumping toxins into our water supply it seemed ok to use oil as a weed killer...i mean it aint hurting anything right>? well fact is that its soaking into the water supply that our kids will have to drink...i know it sounds john denverish but conserving the earths resources will allow the human race to live another million years or so....my neighbor did that crap along our adjoining fenceline with the oil in the sprayer and i caught him in broad daylight doing it and asked him "whats that round-up??" he replied "nah its used oil it kills the hell outta the weeds" i reminded him the way the EPA frowned upon that type of activity to which he said some obcenitys and walked away....as he walked i told him if i seen it again id call em myself....we dont talk much anymore but we have well water here and my daughter drinks it get the point?
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The problem is that the water that gets in the well comes from water that landed on the surface and seeps in or runs off. You could dump oil 50 miles from a well and it can still get in. It just takes time. It does not make sense to dispose of waste in your own living room.
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I won't claim that I never dump waste fluids out in the gravel or weeds, but I don't do it unless it's just a little bit in the bottom of the pan or something. I put my used oil and transmission fluid in 5-gallon buckets and take it to a local mechanic, who uses it to heat his house. Gets rid of it for me, keeps him warm in the winter, everybody's happy. Antifreeze I don't often deal with the same way twice...but there's a big drum of it in my grandpa's shop and I sometimes dump my used stuff in there. We'll deal with the drum when we clean out the shop one of these years. Treatment of brake fluid varies too; there's a bucket in the shop, but it's usually such a small amount - just from bleeding brakes or something - that I just dump it in the gravel.
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i don't do anything with it. when i top up with fresh oil i pour the old stuff in the empty container. then i hide it in the bushes behind the compost pile. the last house we lived in there were maybe 20 of these gallon jugs under the deck and behind the air conditioner... along with old tires, batteries and everything else the garbage man didn't want to take. my mom made me put up some lattice along the deck when we moved so she could sell the house
but i like the idea of running it thru the furnace. with heating oil pushing 50cents CAN$ a litre here its an idea i might want to try.
will this work with any furnace? do i have to filter the oil first? i'd imagine i have to change the fuel filter on the furnace more often?
but i like the idea of running it thru the furnace. with heating oil pushing 50cents CAN$ a litre here its an idea i might want to try.
will this work with any furnace? do i have to filter the oil first? i'd imagine i have to change the fuel filter on the furnace more often?
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