Oil Disposal after change

Hav'nt you filled it yetWow! am I cute
If yer ain't fishing, Yer ain't livin
Richard

I agree with you Ros. If the workshop etc won't take it I have known known to leave it in their driveway. The same goes with tyres.

In my KTM service manual it points out that 1l of oil dumped on the
ground can potentially contaminate 100 000 litres of water.

As far as using the oil for fences etc diesel oil is highly noxiuos and poisonous stuff, I was asleep on a boat and the engine dumped a load of oil in the bilge which I being asleep didn't notice anyway 3hrs later woke to have a spew that came out green (never been seasick) and spent 2 days in hospital for observation after toxic poisoning. Surely creosote would be better for your fences etc and you'll only have to do it once, bit late now though.

Out bush I have seen some shocking and flagrant behaviour one of the worst is the unofficial parking/rest spot at the juction of the Kintore and Tanami Roads which regularly is the dumping spot for commercial loads of diesel oil and used filters etc they empty the 300l drums on the ground and toss the rest in a pile, *&T^(&^%(&^%*^%$&^#%&^#&^#&^#&^#%&^#%&^#%&^#%&^#%&%$#$^#$@%$!#%$#@&%$#*&^$(&^%(^%*^%$&%$@@^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our local council takes waste like oil and other recyclables every fortnight on the same day as the normal collection. I leave it in the clean on the outside 5ltr containers it comes in, makes recycling easy.
But I've seen some bad things done in the bush when I worked on road jobs and mine sites. Massive oil dump at Telfer which we burnt off every few weeks, should have seen the fire and smoke from thousands of gallons of diesel, engine oil, hydraulic, diff oil etc.
Other sites we just cut a rip with a dozer or grader and dropped the lot straight in, and then covered it up. Out of sight, out of mind was the reasoning then. Far too expensive to truck it to the nearest collection point, which probably didn't even exist 20 years ago.
At least these days and in the metro areas, there's no excuse to just dump it.

I was reading some of your comments on the oil recyling issue well here is a thought.

dose anybody need hot water for any reason?

a bunch of you guys should get to geather and store it in one place?
and burn it use the hot water for stuff.
eeerrr

not sure if that would be feesable?

well here is the point in the u.s. most comonly we burn it!

and we use int to heat our repair shops in the winter there are a ton companies that make a wide array of burnners the new kind are boilers that run used engine oil and it's legal
the best part most shops charge a environmental charge with the oil change about 1$ then the state government gives the shop a tax credit
just though i would shed a little light from across the pond!!!