Waste Oil Storage

[gasjockey]

so your going to spend money to put the waste oil in and drop off.use the pop bottles on cost to that

 

[TwoInch]

Most of the fryer oil jugs are VERY thin plastic and are in cardboard boxes. The problem I had was that many franchise businesses get ones with their business name (such as Five Guys Burgers) imprinted on the outside, and they refused to give me the boxes, just the jugs. The jugs by themselves, are too thin to safely be transported with oil in them. If it has their business name, shipping label, anything that might connect the container with them, they won't let me have the box.

Other issue is that several posters here have mentioned just "dropping off" the oil at Auto Zone, Advance, etc. Every place I've been in here has you dump it yourself, and TAKE THE CONTAINER WITH YOU, they will not allow you to leave the container. Four or five gallons a day, and you enter your name, address, what you dumped, etc, in a logbook.

I have a used oil fueled heater, and lots of guys at work give me oil in the 4 or 5 qt containers the new oil came in. This works real well for me, except that I have to deal with the containers. I can fully understand why the parts places would not want dozens of empty containers sitting around.

I dump the oil from the containers I'm given, quickly and DO NOT drip out the containers, as that is when the settled sludge comes out. Then I take the containers and turn them up one by one, over a period of days or weeks and drip out the sludge and thick **** into a single container/funnel. I'll burn that in the burn barrel when burn season comes around, and I stomp the empty containers flat and put them in the trash.

I try to be a good steward of the environment and so I drip out all of my containers, new oil or old, before it goes in the trash. so the oil does not end up in the landfill.

Charles

get them from non-chain restaurants, simple. most all restaurants throw them into the recycle dumpsters still in the box, with the cap screwed on. you open the dumpster and take a couple.

and they are not that thin, they are designed to hold oil through many many miles of truck transport. i have used them for years, and never has one broken, leaked, split, anything, boxed or unboxed. like i said earlier, i usually leave the box on for used oil use, they stack well in the corner.

they hold a lot, are free, and plenty strong. cant beat it.


as for the auto chains not taking X amount of oil at a time, or not keeping the container, and whatnot, when guys say they "leave it', they are leaving it at the back overhead door, not carrying it inside and saying they have waste oil. it not like they are going to dump it in a creek because you didnt take the container. i see containers sitting in a row at AZ all the time by the back door. only because of a amount limit tho, the AZ here allows you to leave the container.

 

[jvitez]

I always have way too many empty used motor oil containers, why the difficulty? Don't you add oil between oil changes? If so, keep them, and your problem is solved. If you're just starting out and have no empties, use anything cheap (washed out windshield washer jugs for eg. ) until you get some empties.

 

[KinzeMech]

and they are not that thin, they are designed to hold oil through many many miles of truck transport. i have used them for years, and never has one broken, leaked, split, anything, boxed or unboxed. like i said earlier, i usually leave the box on for used oil use, they stack well in the corner.

Not all of them. Some are remarkably robust. Others...well they can easily give doubts about how well they'll hold up without a box to reinforce them.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

as for the auto chains not taking X amount of oil at a time, or not keeping the container, and whatnot, when guys say they "leave it', they are leaving it at the back overhead door, not carrying it inside and saying they have waste oil. it not like they are going to dump it in a creek because you didnt take the container. i see containers sitting in a row at AZ all the time by the back door. only because of a amount limit tho, the AZ here allows you to leave the container.

As for the cooking oil containers, I only needed them to give to others that wanted to save me oil. In the end, I was able to grab a bunch of very heavy 5 gal squarish plastic containers that had come with detergent in them. I rinsed them out, dried them out, and passed them out to friends who will pour the oil directly in the container from the drain pan and keep them inside, so I don't get oil with water and other **** in it. I just swap out the jugs when someone has a full one to give me.

As for oil and the parts places, around here, and I've been to a number of various parts places here before I started saving oil for my heater, when I had to dispose of it like everyone else............. the parts places here are ALL crazy picky about following the rules. I'm not rude enough to just leave full containers at the "back door", and if they caught me, they throw me and the oil off the premises. Carry it in, dump it, enter it in the log, and take your container and leave... thats the way it works, easy enough. I don't have to do that any more however. I save it in a drum for my heater (heater fuel tank, 215 gal, is full, so now I filling a 55 gal drum). I'm well set if its a cold winter ahead. Another warm winter and I may have to start refusing oil, as I cannot see keeping more than 300 gals or so total oil for my heater, thats about 200 hrs of run time.

Charles

 

[Cryptic1911]

I have an 8 gallon rolling oil drain that I use under the lift.. When it's full, just bring it to the dump and pour it in their waste oil tank. Prior to that, I was pouring it back into empty 1gal oil jugs that I saved

 

[maddawg308]

When I changed my oil, this is the tank I put it in. It's mounted on the side of the truck under the bed just behind the cab.

Yes, my deuce runs of waste motor oil. And used ****** fluid. And used transformer mineral oil, and anything else I toss in there.

 

[38Chevy454]

your local bodyshops should have 5 gallon thinner cans, metal with a pour spout.

This is what I use also. The 5 gal cans have as crew-on cap. Easy to pour out of and the cap keeps it from spilling when transporting. If it can hold lacquer thinner, it certainly can hold oil.

I don't do a lot of painting, but the lacquer thinner is great for general solvent cleaning of stuff. I get the 5 gal cans for my own use.

 

[I_AM]

If you use 15w-40 buy Rotella in the 2.5 gallon jugs. They are perfect waste oil containers.

 

[Catamount]

Our county has a no-charge hazardous materials drop-off center. 5 days a week, you can bring any amount of paint, oil, old gas, brake fluid, etc.

They do not take your name, they just ask to make sure you live in the county (you could lie).

Their interest is to keep the stuff out of our lakes and streams, and I'm surprised that more places don't have a drop-off center like this.

 

[Outlawmws]

I think every county in kalifornia has that. Its "free", which means the local govs require the waste people to include the service in the contract, and of course it gets loaded into the overall garbage bill for everyone, so there really is no free lunch...