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Australian local councils dispose of used motor oil, take it to your council's recycling centre, along with your gearbox oil, in a motor oil container.
I use green NoToil (and have for probably 20-something years), so I just clean my filters with Oxy Clean laundry detergent in the kitchen sink. Never had an issue. 🤷🏻♂️
I've used NoToil for about 25 years which you can just dump in the yard. Before that I would take it to a hazardous waste collection with my used oil and coolant.
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You guys know the recycling centers throw them in the trash, right? I just cut out the middleman and do it myself.
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Sure, but OSHA will go absolute scalded earth on a business if they find aerosol cans in the trash.
What, no they won’t🤣
Is this a special Australia problem?
In the US, most municipal trash places will take oil, paint, solvents, etc. as long as it's not in liquid form.
You have to put it in cat litter or sand, that way it doesn't run out of the trucks before they get to poor side of town.
plot twist, the trash can was mislabeled becasue Derrek can't spell good.
I've been dealing with this conundrum myself.
My city does basically nothing for hazardous waste collection, and for anyone who does their own vehicle maintenance it's a huge hassle.
Repair shops will take used oil and coolant, but neither can be contaminated.
I don't even know where to begin on proper disposal of filter cleaner. I would probably have to start saving it in a big drum and have an environmental disposal company come and pick it up.
Even with the enviro companies, they are extremely picky. My uncle has a 300 gallon IBC out behind his shop just filled to the brim with used oil & coolant. They used to take it, but now they want it uncontaminated like the shops.
Guess it depends where you're at. Our OSHA inspector was not lenient.
They'd put us under the prison then.
Trash sucks for businesses. Here in CA, they can fine your business up to $10,000 for each infraction of a trash violation - and we have four or five different kinds of waste! (Trash, Recycling, Food/Organic Waste, and Electronic Waste. "Green" waste (tree trimmings, grass clippings,) may be part of the food waste category, but I'm not sure.) I sure hope that doesn't filter down to residential collection, but I have a feeling it will so that the state can collect more fees.
Why would OSHA go through a trash can?
Just going on what he said, put i also put old oil back in the ground where it came from.
"Is this a special Australia problem?"
No, most Australian local councils accept used oil with no charge, you can also take it to a council you don't live in, but they typically charge a fee. The councils sell it to oil recyclers, it either gets refined for reused or burned as fuel.
I use Bel Ray filter oil and Mineral Spirits to strip the oil. My county's landfill takes the dirty mineral spirits for free. A worker told me they re-use the dirty mineral spirts on some of their equipment before disposing.
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Solid advice, but I am not traveling half way around the world to dispose of my used filter cleaner. 😂 (My attempt at humor, downvote if you must).
Same way you get rid of the Ex. A shovel and a hole.🤣
No toil. Problem solved.
Not quite.
You don't want to hit the bucket of used filter cleaner in the head with the shovel first like you do the ex. Just use it to dig the hole.
You would also need to declare the oil as dangerous good when you enter Australia!
There's a hazmat disposal nearby, but I've never actually used it. In the past I've donated my diesel fuel to the local fire department, they used it for controlled burns.
Not that this is sn acceptable solution for me in CA but elsewhere I imagine that you could make a waste oil burner for shop heat.
Would they take the whole cleaning solution though? I'm specifically talking about the cleaning solutions that you pour into a tub and just throw the filter in. So the tub would have the cleaning solution which is mostly water, the old filter oil, and all the dirt from the filter
Look up your local council's website, it will show what they take, water in the oil is not an issue, but they won't take some chemicals like anti-freeze, acids, and bases.
Can't it be used to cool data centers ?
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