Oil and fuel filter disposal

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What's the "proper" way to dispose of used oil and fuel filters / elements?

Next weekend I'm in for changing the oil. I also swap out the filter elements. I'll have 7 filters: main engine oil and fuel, generator oil and fuel, 2 additional Racor filters, and the transmission oil filter.

I know I can take the used oil to the local quick lube joint, but what about the filters? Will they take those? The land fill in my town on Long Island where I am will take the filters as part of the hazardous waste disposal program, but it's not terribly convenient.
 
b_arrington said:
What's the "proper" way to dispose of used oil and fuel filters / elements?

Next weekend I'm in for changing the oil. I also swap out the filter elements. I'll have 7 filters: main engine oil and fuel, generator oil and fuel, 2 additional Racor filters, and the transmission oil filter.

I know I can take the used oil to the local quick lube joint, but what about the filters? Will they take those? The land fill in my town on Long Island where I am will take the filters as part of the hazardous waste disposal program, but it's not terribly convenient.
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I collect the filters for a while and go on the 1 saturday a month the county will take them. Oil I take to autozone they'll only do 5 gallons a day so I do multiple locations :rolleyes:
 
b_arrington said:
What's the "proper" way to dispose of used oil and fuel filters / elements?

Next weekend I'm in for changing the oil. I also swap out the filter elements. I'll have 7 filters: main engine oil and fuel, generator oil and fuel, 2 additional Racor filters, and the transmission oil filter.

I know I can take the used oil to the local quick lube joint, but what about the filters? Will they take those? The land fill in my town on Long Island where I am will take the filters as part of the hazardous waste disposal program, but it's not terribly convenient.
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Check Walmart too. They take used oil and sometimes they’ll take the filters too.
 
My marina offers oil disposal stations. We just dump our used oil onto the 55 gal barrel and leave the filters on top to drain. Pretty easy and convenient
 
When I changed my oil few days ago, one dock neighbor said leave the 5 gallon pails by the dumpster and they will recycle it....so I did and walking back to the boat one dock guy I have never talked to all summer said...Did you just change your oil...I said yes and kept on walking. 10 minutes later I walked back up to the car and the 2 5gl pails were gone... :eek:.... oil swindlers right under my nose
 
Blueone said:
...the 2 5gl pails were gone... :eek:.... oil swindlers right under my nose
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I can't help but wonder what they were going to do with used oil. Maybe they have an oil-burner furnace? I've thought about one myself for the shop, but my "fleet" isn't big enough to feed one of those heaters with enough oil.
 
Oil disposal. You guys wanna hear some crazy sh!t, back in the day my grandad had a country property. With a well, and we would dig a hole in the back yard, to pour used oil in. I wonder now how much of that oil we drank.
 
Blueone said:
When I changed my oil few days ago, one dock neighbor said leave the 5 gallon pails by the dumpster and they will recycle it....so I did and walking back to the boat one dock guy I have never talked to all summer said...Did you just change your oil...I said yes and kept on walking. 10 minutes later I walked back up to the car and the 2 5gl pails were gone... :eek:.... oil swindlers right under my nose
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Have you seen the price of oil lately. :)
 
Thanks for the ideas. I'll check my local Autozone.

Honestly, I'm glad nobody said to just toss the filters the garbage.

Pirate Lady said:
Oil disposal. You guys wanna hear some crazy sh!t, back in the day my grandad had a country property. With a well, and we would dig a hole in the back yard, to pour used oil in. I wonder now how much of that oil we drank.
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A former owner of my inlaw's house had a small machine shop in the back of the garage. He would dump used machine oils and other fluids on the ground outside the back door. In 30 years of ownership, my inlaws have never been able to get anything to grow in that spot. Eventually they just covered it in landscape rocks - and even then not a blade of grass will grow there.
 
Different part of the world, but our bulk plants take it all for no charge. Including old coolant, absorbent cloths and bad gas. They do charge a fee for the old gas though to cover additional handling. You could always check with one of them if you are having problems. They will know what your options are.
 
A long time ago we'd pour it along the fence line to control weeds .... Now it goes to Autozone.
 
Thornton69 said:
Different part of the world, but our bulk plants take it all for no charge. Including old coolant, absorbent cloths and bad gas. They do charge a fee for the old gas though to cover additional handling. You could always check with one of them if you are having problems. They will know what your options are.
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I'm not familiar with the term bulk plant - can you explain?

My town does have a landfill with STOP program: Stop Throwing Out Pollutants. They will take a very wide variety of "stuff": florescent lights with mercury, use oil, fuel, paint, pesticides, paint thinners, etc. It's just a bit of a hassle to get over there and the and hours are limited.
 
We commonly refer to our commercial "bulk" oil and fuel sales terminals as bulk plants. Up here, whoever sells at that sort of level is also supposed to accept it used for recycling. There is no charge, just give them your name for audit purposes.
I deal with Petro-Canada myself. I actually have several barrels at my shop that I sort everything into to reduce my trips there but they are happy to take it on a smaller scale from the public. My used oil barrels usually go to a couple of my customers to top up their furnace tanks.
 
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