Waste mineral oil

[madcyclist09]

I am going to be bleeding my brakes and I was wondering how you guys and girls do with the waste oil.
As I know you not supposed to put it down the drains
TIA

 

[Drago]

Take it t'tip and pour it in their waste oil tank.

 

[madcyclist09]

Take it trip and pour it in their waste oil tank.

Thank you

 

[Webbo2]

I am going to be bleeding my brakes and I was wondering how you guys and girls do with the waste oil.
As I know you not supposed to put it down the drains
TIA

Take up bodybuilding and use it to oil up.😉

 

[Drago]

Take up bodybuilding and use it to oil up.😉

Or inject it like that synthol eejuts do. Google it - it's scary!

 

[Chris S]

Put it in a plastic bottle and then put that in the bin. It will get burnt in the tip's incinerator.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Style your hair with it.

 

[Drago]

In days of old there were all sorts of uses for old oil. For painting garden sheds, as redneck underseal on cars.

Quite often a tradesman would service their car and then the old oil would be used in their van for a year before finally ending up as underseal or somesuch.

 

[I like Skol]

Take it trip and pour it in their waste oil tank.

You make it sound soooo simple!

As a keen car hobbyist I self service my 4x4 once a year (engine takes about 7ltrs and then often additional oils related to the four wheel drive system. I also do an annual oil change on my wife's car (4-5ltrs). Add to this two sons with cars that also usually come home to do their servicing with dad and it isn't unusual for me to legitimately have 30-40 ltrs of used oil each year without being a commercial producer.

To save running to the tip every time I do a job I have always saved it in an old plastic 25ltr drum and taken this when it gets close to full.... Except recently the tip has tried to restrict deposits to a maximum of 10ltrs! GREAT....

I'm a responsible, honest person but I'm being made to feel like my sensible and environmentally friendly approach is somehow bad or dishonest in someway. It's almost like they would prefer me to go away and pour it down the drain or something?

 

[Drago]

That is pretty crap.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Tip rules can be weird.

When my mum moved house I shifted a load of stuff in a hired van. While I was there, before I loaded it up, I nipped to the tip with a few odds and ends in the van, because that was the only vehicle I had. Big mistake. No vans allowed. I had to park round the corner and carry the stuff in.

 

[Drago]

Yet when asked to explain which law they're using to curtail your rights they seem inexplicably struck dumb,

 

[PeteXXX]

I suppose it would do just as well for mineral oil.. 👌

 

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I suppose it would do just as well for mineral oil.. 👌

In those days engine oil was essentially mineral oil. That’s not me condoning the practice by the way.

 

[PeteXXX]

In those days engine oil was essentially mineral oil. That’s not me condoning the practice by the way.

Must be safe, then, after all it's in Popular Science!