Dumping waste oil, brake fluid etc...where?

**crashe** · 27th February 2007, 09:08

It kills weeds really good......... around the boundary line of your section...
if you have run out of 'Roundup'

**Trudes** · 27th February 2007, 09:13

Originally Posted by Deviant Esq

The local petrol station down the road from where I used to live has a massive drum / silo you could pour your old oil into. Presumably they either disposed of it properly or cleaned it up in some way for it to be reused in some application. I'd say give some of your local petrol stations or car workshops a call, at least one of them should have a similar thing.

And that is the reason why you should never get a forecourt attendant to top up the oil in your car....

**Motu** · 27th February 2007, 09:18

I would apprieciate it if you didn't divulge trade secrets to the general public please.

**Ixion** · 27th February 2007, 09:21

Disposal of old oil is easy.

When you buy the new keg, get a plastic "shop" bag (ie the plastic bag that Repco or whoever put stuff in) . Keep the bag, and once the oil is changed put the old oil back into the (now empty) keg the new oil came in. Put the keg of old oil in the shop bag . Drive back to Repco or wherever. Park. Put bag on ground beside door of car , as you do when fiddling with keys etc. Get in car leaving bag with old oil on the ground. Drive off. Some lucky person will score a keg of nice "new" oil. Sorted.

**unhingedlizard** · 27th February 2007, 09:27

Originally Posted by Ixion

Disposal of old oil is easy.

When you buy the new keg, get a plastic "shop" bag (ie the plastic bag that Repco or whoever put stuff in) . Keep the bag, and once the oil is changed put the old oil back into the (now empty) keg the new oil came in. Put the keg of old oil in the shop bag . Drive back to Repco or wherever. Park. Put bag on ground beside door of car , as you do when fiddling with keys etc. Get in car leaving bag with old oil on the ground. Drive off. Some lucky person will score a keg of nice "new" oil. Sorted.

Thats funny. But it is how I get rid of old oil kegs. Just put the old oil back into it. Then take it to the tip with a load of rubbish and they usually tell you where to stick it. One way or another.

**Motu** · 27th February 2007, 09:37

I used to run my old A40 on waste oil - not any waste oil,I used to save the oil of customers late model cars who changed before their mileage was due.I did 16 lubes a day so had plenty to choose from.I kept the oil in a container in the tray (friggen useless pickups)...and one day someone stole my used oil container....heh,heh,silly buggers.

Garages are reluctant to take used oil not produced in their own business....used oil pickup is free at the moment,but it has not always been that way....in fact a long time ago we were paid for it by the oil rerefinery.They are responsable for any contanination by solvents,they have to pay for decontamination of the whole tanker or holding tank.They might say no to your old oil.

**ManDownUnder** · 27th February 2007, 09:38

Ring the loacl garage and get a spare 20 litre drum off them (they'll have them kicking around). Pour your waste oil into that and when it's full take it to the land fill for safe disposal (per DD post)

Alternately, go for a 60 litre drum if needed.

No to pouring it into the landfill. Very dumb idea

**ManDownUnder** · 27th February 2007, 09:40

Originally Posted by Motu

in fact a long time ago we were paid for it by the oil rerefinery.

Which presumes they reprocess it somehow? Into... oil or other?

**Bonez** · 28th February 2007, 05:04

Mine goes into a 20ltr container and is used for many things. Clearing up the mutts exma (tip from trainee vet), spot weeding, topping up the CX/lawnmower, fence stain and a 101 other uses.

**Motu** · 28th February 2007, 06:33

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

Which presumes they reprocess it somehow? Into... oil or other?

Dominion Oil Refinery was in Onehunga and used to rerefine the oil back into oils of various kinds.We used to go down and buy oil by the 60 litre drum - they had these huge vats,and they'd take your drum and just pour it in.I was pretty good oil,but nothing fancy.

I went on a tour of the site about 10 years ago,not long before it was closed down.The place was just too ''dirty'' to clean up,modern rules and regulations just couldn't be met.They still have to dispose of the waste products.They used to filter the oil through clay filters on one of the refining stages....like how do they get rid of that.

**idleidolidyll** · 28th February 2007, 06:44

tip it down the sink or the drain outside.

the oceans are huge and your little bottle of oil will thin out so much that it will actually disappear and be a problem for nobody

(based on a conversation in China)

I lived in Lanzhou City, China in 97. Lanzhou is at the end of a closed valley cut by the Yellow River (Huang He) between the Gobi Desert and the Tibetan Plateau. It suffers from terrible pollution (mainly in winter when the air doesn't rise).
The city's solution was to dig out the mountain at the end of the valley allowing the wind to blow the pollution to the East.
A young lady on a bus one day told me this was a wonderful solution because once the pollution dissipated enough, it WOULD actually cease to exist: she was serious in her belief.

By the time I was living in Lanzhou the project was well underway and an army of worker ants had already removed about 20% from the top of the mountain (Lanzhou is at 1700 metres)

**Maha** · 28th February 2007, 06:49

Originally Posted by idleidolidyll

tip it down the sink or the drain outside.

the oceans are huge and your little bottle of oil will thin out so much that it will actually disappear and be a problem for nobody

(based on a conversation in China)

I lived in Lanzhou City, China in 97. Lanzhou is at the end of a closed valley cut by the Yellow River (Huang He) between the Gobi Desert and the Tibetan Plateau. It suffers from terrible pollution (mainly in winter when the air doesn't rise).
The city's solution was to dig out the mountain at the end of the valley allowing the wind to blow the pollution to the East.
A young lady on a bus one day told me this was a wonderful solution because once the pollution dissipated enough, it WOULD actually cease to exist: she was serious in her belief.

By the time I was living in Lanzhou the project was well underway and an army of worker ants had already removed about 20% from the top of the mountain (Lanzhou is at 1700 metres)

Shit hole place really huh?, saw a doco on the weekend about the pollution in China and its rivers etc, fucken' disgusting, out of the 10 most polluted cities in the world....China has 5!!!

**idleidolidyll** · 28th February 2007, 07:06

Originally Posted by maha man

Shit hole place really huh?, saw a doco on the weekend about the pollution in China and its rivers etc, fucken' disgusting, out of the 10 most polluted cities in the world....China has 5!!!

yeah, it's really polluted but i wouldn't call it a 'shit hole'; that has more connotations than just pollution

for instance i'd call the USA a shit hole of political terrorism

China has decided they'll clean up all the pollution in Beijing before the Olympic games. In the city your eyes nearly bleed from the acid burns and frankly, I just think they're deluded

**Finn** · 28th February 2007, 07:28

I did an oil change on the bikes and SUV a month ago. I had about 10 litres of crude so down the drain it went. That NZ, is for having a Green Party.

FYI, Westhaven marina has an oil dumping station if you can be arsed.