Just outa curiosity,

When I take my truck in for an oil change, and the dealer discards it (and charges me a $2 disposal fee)

What becomes of it?

Is it recycled and then sold to us again?

The reason I ask, is because when my old oil is drained, it looks as clean as the day I put it in, so I often wondered if they re-refine it, or filter it again to sell as new oil.

Thanks
Alex

 

What do you do, drive it out and then around the building and in again?

 

One dealership in our area has a waste oil furnace that they use to heat the dealership and garage. In the summer they have storage tanks to keep it till they need it.

 

I know at our shop SaftyKleen picks it up, i think they do refine it and turn it into some other type of lubricant.

-Jon

 

I heard that the refineries just burn it for the heat?? Hardly any is recycled.

 

We dump it in the creeks and rivers here....j/k

 

I believe they re-use the oil for certian types of tractors and large equipment. I asked my mechanic and he said they reprocess it.

 

As far as what I do with mine:

I use to take it in somewhere that dispoised of it. Then after hearing many treehuggers worrying about how guys like us are using it all up I figured I would just dump it back in the ground where it orignally came from.

I figure that way there will still be some for future generations... , guess that makes me kind of a tree hugger now huh???

 

I'm just kidding. I take mine to Autozone.

 

My dealership has the oil burning heaters that use old oil. During the summer months they store it in tanks. It's funny how they can charge us $2.00 or $3.00 for us giving them their winter heat source.

 

LOL @ 01XLTSport,

Poor old Cassie will have a heart attack if she ever reads this.
LMAO

 

Maybe you should start putting stickers on the dealership's oil tanks where they store the oil.."I don't care about refining, I care about poluting the air..." Of course, those people don't have the ***** to place any stickers on while someone is around...That's why cars in parking lots are perfect....

 

Habibi:

"LOL @ 01XLTSport,

Poor old Cassie will have a heart attack if she ever reads this.
LMAO"

Maybe I should post that over there under the heading of:

How I am conserving oil for future generations

 

I bring my old oil to one of those chain places, and they take it for free. They said they send it away to be recycled, and turned into some type of lubricant, I forgot what he said.

 

I always heard it was one of the main ingredients in ashpalt. I also heard they use some of it to make Olefin carpet fibers. The type of carpet that turns black when it wears. Most berber carpet is olefin and turns black over time when the color wears out of it.