Babyray

Mine goes in a 55 gallon drum . Mix it with Deisel and spray it on corral boards , fence posts whatever .

wross996tt

Yeah I'm glad all of you are recycling...but this is an extremely small sample and I would not draw conclusions about the entire world regarding recycling habits for used oil...My guess is you are the exception.

Bernard IV

I dump mine into a river where the salmon spawn.

leftlane

Nobody else just flushes it down the toilet?

2fcknfst

Popular choices indeed.

993GT

I save my used Mezger oil and throw it in M96's, it's like a booster shot for those engines

autobonrun

It’s amazing the things individuals, farms, and even government owned equipment get away with that companies spend millions avoiding. If a piece of equipment on my construction site spilled anything, I had to immediately remove the equipment from service, write a report detailing what was spilled and how much. Then I had to remove any soil underneath the equipment that came in contact with the spill, take it to a location I had prepared in advance with absorbent material and multiple layers of plastic and store it there until I brought a hazardous waste company out to remove it. Any runoff in a refinery that could contain oil gets collected in a dedicated sewer where it runs into a pond with special bacteria and enzymes that break down the oil. Yet individuals can just flush it. Not complaining, just stating facts. With this background knowledge, I do recycle everything I can. And people wonder why a gallon of gas costs so much. These costs get passed on.

Babyray

My question is: if you did spill a couple of quarts of oil on your construction site, why would you tell anyone. Clean it up and go back to work.

autobonrun

Oh, the EPA fines on the owner for failure to report and mitigate were huge; in the five digits. This applies to both spills and airborne releases. With 2-3 hundred construction workers there is always one disgruntled worker more than happy to report you. Now if a worker just cleaned it up without telling management, there’s nothing we could do. But I think they enjoyed the work pause while it was being cleaned. It wasn’t me that made the spill, it would be one of the many construction workers; I was in management.

s65e90

Depends on the size of the spill also. I deal with accidental leaks and if small you can do this, but if just enough, it creates a huge headache and is very expensive. It's funny considering how the ground was polluted for years from the defense contractors here but they claim ignorance due to time when it occurred saying no one knew better.

Babyray

Got it. I was in residential housing construction my whole life doing custom homes, never saw anything like that. My son on the other hand is in the operator’s Union and has some pretty crazy stories about Cal Trans watch dogs they put in place on his jobs. Usually highly educated and severely under experienced telling a guy that’s spent half his life on a machine how to better his job.