What do you guys do with your old antifreeze?
#1
03-06-2005, 09:53 AM
#2
03-06-2005, 10:02 AM
The recommended disposal for old antifreeze is to pour it down a sanitary sewer! If your community has a sewage treatment plant and you are connected to it, just dump it down the drain or down the toilet (if your wife isn't looking). Do not dump into a storm drain as the antifreeze will go directly to the environment. If you have a septic system, don't dump at home. From what I understand for the county environmental departmeent, the bad stuff in antifreeze is settled out in the seweage treatment plant and become part of the sludge that is further processed somehow.
#3
03-06-2005, 10:05 AM
#4
03-06-2005, 10:17 AM
Originally Posted by oldfordtrucker
The recommended disposal for old antifreeze is to pour it down a sanitary sewer! If your community has a sewage treatment plant and you are connected to it, just dump it down the drain or down the toilet (if your wife isn't looking). Do not dump into a storm drain as the antifreeze will go directly to the environment. If you have a septic system, don't dump at home. From what I understand for the county environmental departmeent, the bad stuff in antifreeze is settled out in the seweage treatment plant and become part of the sludge that is further processed somehow.
Take any old automotive fluids to your local recycling center or automotive center that will take the fluids for free.
#5
03-06-2005, 10:17 AM
Feed it to stray cats....
(NO! Just kidding)
Anti freeze seems to be irresistable to felines, and it kills them. It needs to be collected and re-used, but if it is old and not necessarily useful anymore, most parts stores accept it as a recyclable substance.
The next time you go to auto zone or wherever - bring it with you and see if you can turn it in at their waste disposal site. It's usually back next to the dumpster, but you have to sign on a clip-board as to the contents of what it is. IT'S FREE - costs you nothing but time, and you are doing it right...
(KUDOS TO YA FOR ASKING!)
(NO! Just kidding)
Anti freeze seems to be irresistable to felines, and it kills them. It needs to be collected and re-used, but if it is old and not necessarily useful anymore, most parts stores accept it as a recyclable substance.
The next time you go to auto zone or wherever - bring it with you and see if you can turn it in at their waste disposal site. It's usually back next to the dumpster, but you have to sign on a clip-board as to the contents of what it is. IT'S FREE - costs you nothing but time, and you are doing it right...
(KUDOS TO YA FOR ASKING!)
Last edited by Greywolf; 03-06-2005 at 10:22 AM.
#7
03-06-2005, 10:26 AM
Save your old A-FREEZE buckets
That stuff is expensive (can we agree on that? Yeah? I thought so...)
Never just dump it, use it over. We can reduce the amount we SPEND (first of all) by putting the same A-Freeze back in a motor we build when we get done. And thinking more on it, there will always come a day when you need a pre-mixed batch of coolant to add to a low system.
Any that is left over should be kept to the side. Put it back in the jugs that the new stuff came in - you might need it some day.
You can pretty much tell if it isn't any good anymore by looking at it. If it has a lot of rust in it - don't trust it. Use a drop-ball guage to read the protection factor. If it still reads fine: THERE'S NO REASON TO PITCH IT!
Scavenge, salvage, SAVE MONEY!!!
And the less stuff that gets buried somewhere, the better off all of us are. I wouldn't want to be downstream from a waste disposal site...
~Wolf sendzzzz
That stuff is expensive (can we agree on that? Yeah? I thought so...)
Never just dump it, use it over. We can reduce the amount we SPEND (first of all) by putting the same A-Freeze back in a motor we build when we get done. And thinking more on it, there will always come a day when you need a pre-mixed batch of coolant to add to a low system.
Any that is left over should be kept to the side. Put it back in the jugs that the new stuff came in - you might need it some day.
You can pretty much tell if it isn't any good anymore by looking at it. If it has a lot of rust in it - don't trust it. Use a drop-ball guage to read the protection factor. If it still reads fine: THERE'S NO REASON TO PITCH IT!
Scavenge, salvage, SAVE MONEY!!!
And the less stuff that gets buried somewhere, the better off all of us are. I wouldn't want to be downstream from a waste disposal site...
~Wolf sendzzzz
Last edited by Greywolf; 03-06-2005 at 10:35 AM.
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03-06-2005, 10:49 AM
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03-06-2005, 10:50 AM
What to do????
#10
03-06-2005, 01:12 PM
I let my used AF settle and pour the clean fluid into jugs for topping off systems as long as it tests good. Anything I can't use that way gets poured into the toilet per the instructions from my local wastewater department. Apparently the sewer "bugs" love the stuff, tastes like sugar to them.
My local parts store guys frown on mixing it with oil.
My local parts store guys frown on mixing it with oil.
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03-06-2005, 02:37 PM
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#12
03-06-2005, 02:40 PM
Thats the problem. It tastes like "sugar" to dogs,cats, kids, who ever. The SPCA and john law don't like that. Causes liver failure. A real tough way to go. You get REAL sick.
Thats one reason for that evergreen antifreeze or whatever the name is. It is non toxic. But then it probably won't work as well. ?????????
Toxic waste is what built America. We have got to stick up for our rights by george!
(toxic humor) sorry.
Back before the days of ethylene glycol antifreeze, they used alcohol for antifreeze. (Before WWII, I think) The main problem was that the heat made it evaporate quickly. Had to check and add frequently.
If that was still the case---would it change the tailgate parties to the hood/radiator?
Thats one reason for that evergreen antifreeze or whatever the name is. It is non toxic. But then it probably won't work as well. ?????????
Toxic waste is what built America. We have got to stick up for our rights by george!
(toxic humor) sorry.
Back before the days of ethylene glycol antifreeze, they used alcohol for antifreeze. (Before WWII, I think) The main problem was that the heat made it evaporate quickly. Had to check and add frequently.
If that was still the case---would it change the tailgate parties to the hood/radiator?
#13
03-06-2005, 03:05 PM
Using alcohol for antifreeze post dates WWII by a number of years. I remember, in the '50's, dad having to change from alcohol based antifreeze to water every spring and back again in the fall. "Prestone" first became known to many because of its use in liquid cooled aircraft engines, such as the Allisons in P-38's, during WWII. It was sometime in the 60's I believe that ethylene glycol antifreeze became standard in cars.
