What do you do with used degreaser?

[Kenwc]

This may not belong in this section...but....what do you do with used degreaser in home shops. I'm sure the Pro's have a service that pics it up.

Curious if folks know of places that accept it like oil changes places or garages.

Of course there is a recycle place the city has but the paperwork effort is rediculous and have to travel to more than one place to do it. I'll go that route unless something easier comes up.

Thanks

 

[davesnothere]

I mop it up. With a mop.

 

[Outlawmws]

This is another reason I mostly switched to Simple Green, However, I take mine to the Household Hazardous waste facility, along with any old paint or other unwanted materials. Back in, sign a "what are you dropping off?" form, they unload, and then I go into the "Free reusable toxic materials" section to see what I can take home for free

It's a losing proposition...

 

[bobcatdan]

I'm sure the tree huggers will have a fit, but I run everything that will burn threw the wood stove. Anitfreeze I drop at work.

 

[PCO6]

We have a household hazardous waste depot that's about 3 miles from where I live. There's no paper work at all and I've never had anything refused.

 

[onething]

Not sure if you're in Tarrant Co. but they do neighborhood recycling periodically. They bring trailers out and take anything you can drop at the household hazardous waste site.

 

[Kenwc]

This about as close to simple green as it gets....it's formula 88 which is very safe until its loaded down with what it's used for. I'lljust go the city recycle route I reckon..where I live you have to drive to one side of town and fill out paperwork then drive to the other side of town to dispose of which really does not encourage you to do the right thing.

Thanks...

 

[Kenwc]

Not sure if you're in Tarrant Co. but they do neighborhood recycling periodically. They bring trailers out and take anything you can drop at the household hazardous waste site.

I am in Tarrant and didn't know they did that. I wonder if I could go straight there without having to get a document from NRH stating I live in Tarrant which is the normal process....thanks...I'll look it up.

 

[kippieland]

I use spray and wash to degrease anything. I use it to clean my MX bike...I used to use Simple Green, but this stuff works 10 times better. Plus, it smells nicer...

 

[Kestas]

Is this fluid petroleum based? I would filter it through paper towel and dump it in your gas tank in small doses. Win-win.

 

[Outlawmws]

Is this fluid petroleum based? I would filter it through paper towel and dump it in your gas tank in small doses. Win-win.

 

[djjsr]

I use mineral spirits. The dirty stuff goes into a plastic jug and over a period of about 2 weeks the contaminants settle out. I carefully pour off the clean stuff and use it over again.

 

[kippieland]

+2 on that.....

 

[Kenwc]

I mop it up. With a mop.

But it's in 5 gallon buckets..I'd have to pour it on the floor first...

This is another reason I mostly switched to Simple Green, However, I take mine to the Household Hazardous waste facility, along with any old paint or other unwanted materials. Back in, sign a "what are you dropping off?" form, they unload, and then I go into the "Free reusable toxic materials" section to see what I can take home for free

It's a losing proposition...

They really have a "free reusable toxic materials section"?

And they say nothing is free these days...

 

[slob]

My town does a rotating monthly drop-off for hazardous materials, e-waste, batteries, paint, etc. I wait until I have a trunk load of such things and go to whichever park is hosting it that month. They sort it out and direct it to the proper disposal facility. Sometimes I'll even pool with the neighbors. I used to not care. But then I worked on the back of a garbage truck and saw first hand exactly how much toxic **** was being tossed and then burned, or leeched into the aquifer.

 

[Outlawmws]

I use mineral spirits. The dirty stuff goes into a plastic jug and over a period of about 2 weeks the contaminants settle out. I carefully pour off the clean stuff and use it over again.

I do this with oil based paint brush cleanup. if you give it time it wil prtty mch solidify on the bottom, and you can pour off the clean stuff leaving only a little bit of solvent inside with the paint residue. that I' let dry fully, and then toss in the trash.

They really have a "free reusable toxic materials section"?

And they say nothing is free these days...

Yep they do. Most of it is house paint in five, and one gallon containers, and in quarts, but I've also gotten lamp oil, kerosene, white gas, cleaners I use, and quite a bit of spray paint.

 

[Your Father]

Toilet.

 

[PCO6]

Toilet.

Another

 

[Ghostrider]

"Free reusable toxic materials" section to see what I can take home for free :...

Hmmm I think I need to go snooping around! Where you from outlaw?

 

[Outlawmws]

Hmmm I think I need to go snooping around! Where you from outlaw?

Left coast. The theory here is that for known chemicals that are not highly hazardous, using them in there intended use is the best way to dispose of them. Makes sense, and costs virtually nothing...

 

[USMCdodge]

water the grass with mine

 

[Outlawmws]

Is this fluid petroleum based? I would filter it through paper towel and dump it in your gas tank in small doses. Win-win.

Toilet.

water the grass with mine

 

[BackTracker]

This thread is terrible. The toilet ! Don't you know only used motor oil goes down the toilet! Solvents are a no no!



/sarcasm

 

[Toymeister]

If it has BTU value mix it with your used oil and take it to big box auto parts store. That oil is not taken as a public service, it is sold for its BTU value

 

[cotjocky]

If it has BTU value mix it with your used oil and take it to big box auto parts store. That oil is not taken as a public service, it is sold for its BTU value

If it has value, why will the parts stores around here only allow you to drop 5 gallons of used oil a day? Seems they would take as much as you wanted to bring if they were making money.

 

[ptschram]

I use diesel fuel in my parts washer.

When it's spent, it either goes into the salamander fuel in the winter. In the summer, it is mixed with gasoline and burned in my older Land Rovers.

My first Series truck even had tuning info for use with dieselene made from Saudi Sweet, and Kuwaiti Sour. Understandably, if I added too much solvent to the gasoline, it would "diesel" when you shut it down.

Anti-freeze feeds the bugs in the septic tank. No more than a gallon at a time. I had the septic tank pumped last fall and judging from the condition of the contents, those bugs were well fed.

 

[Wrenches of Death]

Is this fluid petroleum based? I would filter it through paper towel and dump it in your gas tank in small doses. Win-win.

After filtering it and adding some used motor oil, hydraulic fluid, or transmission fluid oil to it for pump lubrication, It'd probably burn just find in a multifuel duce and a half.

You'd be amazed at what they will run on.

WoD

 

[Wrenches of Death]

This thread is terrible. The toilet ! Don't you know only used motor oil goes down the toilet! Solvents are a no no!

/sarcasm

Another mouthful of coffee on the floor!

Best laugh this week.

WoD

 

[lauver]

I use mineral spirits. The dirty stuff goes into a plastic jug and over a period of about 2 weeks the contaminants settle out. I carefully pour off the clean stuff and use it over again.

+1. I do the same thing and never have to recycle anything except the sludge.

The sludge gets mixed with used motor oil and is recycled at my local oil change place.

Works for me.

 

[Gixerfixer]

Throw mine in with the waste oil that I have collected (licensed) they can filter it out seeing as i am paying for it anyway

 

[zjrog]

Some good ideas here... My city has a monthly free drop off point, same place every time. I don't know if they allow stuff to be removed though. Spent spray cans (lube, cleaners, paint) I take and drop at work, we have a drop can for that stuff. Oils go to the parts store but none locally take coolant. Yet. Septic tank bugs LIKE antifreeze? Hmmm, I know someone with a septic tank...

 

[Kestas]

If it has value, why will the parts stores around here only allow you to drop 5 gallons of used oil a day? Seems they would take as much as you wanted to bring if they were making money.

Because DOT regulations limit transporation of oil to 5 gals before you need a license.

 

[71flh]

This thread is terrible. The toilet ! Don't you know only used motor oil goes down the toilet! Solvents are a no no!
/sarcasm

Duh, the solvents clean the oily residue off the pipes...

I have a couple of big jugs of purple power I just filter through old shop rags when it gets too thick. Over time it gets used up.

But I'm not cheap or anything...