Used oil!

[BMWST?]

now you have had the serious replies, how about this for a Oil can be re-refined, Repco's and Supercheap's own brands will by this re-refined oil. That fact that oil can be recycled with no lose of quality is why so many object to paying to drop off a base resource to be sold back, like paying a bakery to take the flour so they can sell you a loaf of bread, or paying a green waste recycler to take your lawn clipping to turn into compost which they then sell to the garden centre.

but the very act of collecting the oil for re refining comes at a cost as done the re refining itself

[MSTRS:Me]

Or paying a whore to toss you off when you have two good hands of your own?

Either way, someone saw you coming...

[Flip]

You guys have some funny ideas.

No body is re-refining used motor oil in NZ. There was one factory doing it but they never reopened after a fire, from memory they were called Donimion Oil. There is one factory in Aust doing it but they have a lot of problems making money, my mate was the GM of the company.

The used lube oil in NZ is collected up and used to direct fire cement kilms. The problem burning used motor oil is it makes a shit load of ash (metal oxides). Most of this ash comes from the zinc and other metal based oil additives, if you fire it into say a boiler you have to clean the tubes out every couple of weeks which is a big ass job. When they direct fire into a lime kilm the ash just becomes part of the cement and causes no problems at all. It is a really good enviromentally sound use of used lube oil.

As far as it's value goes, the oil is worth about the same as HFO to the cement makers, however it all has to be collected, filtered and shipped to the cement works, if the used oil collectors had to pay for the stuff there would be no profit in it and the oil users (us) would have to pay for it to be disposed of.

[F5 Dave]

Ahh what would you know old man? The real answer is I gave my last batch to a mate who is staining his new fence with it & its coming up quite well. He assures me it will never rust so my theory is that every dark fence you see is actually an oil repository system in process.

[Gareth123]

If you need a decent size bucket to transport used oil, hit up your local supermarket bakery. Most have buckets and lids that they will give you for free. I can get 19L buckets from my work with excellent lock on lids that won't easily come off. I then strap that thing onto the back of my bike when it's full and drop if off at the dump for free.

[EJK]

Chuck it over to neighbour's yard when they are not looking.

[G4L4XY]

Chuck it over to neighbour's yard when they are not looking.

(little does he know I live next to him) muahahaha

[sootie]

I used to have trouble getting rid of this stuff, and then I discovered a couple of really good uses.

1. Go around your lawn, and tip a tablespoon or so of it on every weed which offends you. It looks a bit unsightly for a week, but burns all these weeds out, and they are then easy to replace with good grass! I reckon it is better for this purpose than most of the products you have to pay for!

2. Ever had a muffler rust though & had to replace it?? Try putting a few tablespoons of sump oil down the muffler outlet every 3 months or so. Sharp eyed mates may notice a bit of brief smoke soon afterwards but guess what? The oil gradually sinks down to the low point in the exhaust system right where it corrodes through, and it really does reduce corrosion. (A motor mechanic passed this one on to me but only because I was a special mate!)

My 3 or 4 oil changes a year are now all used "in house".