Uses for waste oil?

[ellipsis]

What are we supposed to do with old anti-freeze? Do they take that shit at oil recyclers? or to we pay to dispose of it somewhere? Or just dump it down the drain?

...mix it with cheap wine, relabel it as 'fucking good' wine, sell it to tourists...

[Akzle]

What are we supposed to do with old anti-freeze? Do they take that shit at oil recyclers? or to we pay to dispose of it somewhere? Or just dump it down the drain?

feed it to cats

[Motu]

The company that takes our oil filters takes the coolant as well. They were in today - took a drum of oil filters and a drum of coolant. Done, now it's there problem. Another charge customers will moan about....save the planet, but I'm not paying for it.

[BMWST?]

And you should hear the customers bleat and moan about it. They don't want transparenty, so it just gets built into the price and then they are happy.

doesnt worry me.if i had to dispose of my tyres myself i would have to pay to get rid of them.Its a legitimate charge!

[gsxr]

And you should hear the customers bleat and moan about it. They don't want transparenty, so it just gets built into the price and then they are happy.

Tyre dumping prices in Christchurch
Tyres - Per Type Price
Car Tyre $9.00
4WD Tyre $12.50
Truck Tyre $30.00
Tractor Tyre $75.00
Metric tonne rate $876.00 Per T


As above most tyre retailers/resellers charge at least $5.00 for discarded casing or as above poster said builds it into the price.

[F5 Dave]

Coolant etc pour it on gravel rather than down the drain.

[Erelyes]

Coolant etc pour it on gravel rather than down the drain.

Um, which does what exactly?

[F5 Dave]

Poisons a small bit of the earth rather than the waterways.

[SVboy]

Excuse my ignorance re coolant, but am I right that coolant is now glycol free, is it still harmful to the environment?

[Motu]

Coolant etc pour it on gravel rather than down the drain.

Before there was any recycling for coolant we were told to pour it down the toilet, and let the sewage treatment plant deal with it. It used to block up the toilet....or it could've been that fat Indian fucker that worked on the pumps, he used to leave porno mags under the cystern lid.

[ellipsis]

Before there was any recycling for coolant we were told to pour it down the toilet, and let the sewage treatment plant deal with it. It used to block up the toilet....or it could've been that fat Indian fucker that worked on the pumps, he used to leave porno mags under the cystern lid.

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[Erelyes]

Excuse my ignorance re coolant, but am I right that coolant is now glycol free, is it still harmful to the environment?

Some of them use a different type of glycol.

Ethylene glycol = evil shit.
Propylene glycol = so nontoxic, they even put it in food.

I'm pretty sure most off the shelf stuff is still Ethlyene based though...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifreeze#Primary_agents

[SVboy]

I thought because of its bad properties it had been reformulated to be non/less toxic? The "old" antifreeze was very slippery if spilled, the stuff I use in the cars and bikes now much less so, and lacks that antifreeze smell.

[Erelyes]

I thought because of its bad properties it had been reformulated to be non/less toxic? The "old" antifreeze was very slippery if spilled, the stuff I use in the cars and bikes now much less so, and lacks that antifreeze smell.

Don't think so. They're probably just selling watered down shit; straight stuff is around 1000g/l whereas the premix stuff is 350g/l.

Having a quick squiz at the supercheap auto site it doesn't even look like they stock anything Propylene based

[Erelyes]

Poisons a small bit of the earth rather than the waterways.

Fair call. Wikipedia says it breaks down in the air in 10 days and in water/soil in a few weeks.