Are auto parts stores supposed to take your used oil? Or is it just a convenience for its customers? I usually buy my bike oil from Auto Zone or wally mart...Now have a couple gallons setting here and would like to get rid of it... Thanks for any info....
Jiffy Lube will usually take it for you, some auto parts stores will but it is left up to individual owners if they want to take it from the customers or not. Because the store will then have to call an oil company to pick up all the used stuff. That's why I take it to a quick oil lube place as they always have pick-ups of their used oil :thumbup:
I pour mine down the street storm drain in front of the house ------ Just kidding --- I save a few gallon milk jugs and put the used oil in them and the local Walmart auto department will take them.
I don't know if they have to by law or not but most do that I run across and they don't require you buy anything, at least in my area. You usually have to dump it into their container yourself.
I have a big 20 gallon container i use to use back in my big rig days. i pour my used oil from my bike, wifes car and my pick up in it and take it to jiffy lube
Your town might have a collection tank (mine does)....garages around here look at you like you have 2 heads if you want them to take your used oil. :dontknow:
Same here. People abuse the hell out of though. Anytime I go there, there are bottles all over. Oil spilling down the side of the tank. Some people just go there and put their full containers next to it and leave. I figure someday, they'll take them out as a result...
I have a Jiffy Lube a couple of miles from my house and they will not take it, but the Auto Zone just up from there does. Works great cause then I just buy the new oil and filter from them. One stop. :thumbup:
I don't know if there is a Federal law, but most States require any retailer of motor oils to, in turn, take in used oil. Some have a limit of xx quarts per month and some do not.
In Missouri, virtually any auto parts store will have a storage tank for used oil. Nearly all of the quick oil change places are the same. The exception in Missouri is those quick lube places that use waste oil in those catalyic furnaces. Some are happy to take your used oil, but I know of at least one place that does not because they have no control of the content of the oil that's brought in from other customers. e.g. maybe some antifreeze or other stuff in there. BIG fines for that.
I pour mine down the street storm drain in front of the house ------ Just kidding --- I save a few gallon milk jugs and put the used oil in them and the local Walmart auto department will take them.
Oh I had to chuckle when I read that.... good one. Actually, back in "the day", Dad would save his old motor oil, use some for rust proofing here and there and poured it along the fence line to kill the grass and save mowing/edging. Of course..... those days are looooooonnnnnng gone.
I agree with Russman tho... check your local Auto Repair shops to see if they have an oil burning heater/furnace. I take mine to an Alternator/Auto Elec repair shop and if they are open they welcome it, otherwise I leave it in a bottle at their door. Burns pretty good....
I pour mine down the street storm drain in front of the house ------ Just kidding --- I save a few gallon milk jugs and put the used oil in them and the local Walmart auto department will take them.
We have a 55 gallon drum that a local garage comes and picks it up when it's full. He burns it in his furnace at the station. When he picks it up he leaves us an empty one.
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