Recycling Oil touched equipment

[coxmattycox]

Hi peeps,

I will be taking my old oil to a oil recycling place tommorow

Just 1 question tho, what do I do with funnels etc that have touched the oils? Best to rinse them of (let that drain into the oil then dispose) or should the low amount of oils on these be ok to simply chuck in the bin without causing issues.

Cheers

 

[Housey]

Tree hugger

 

[coxmattycox]

By that I take it your suggesting to just chuck in the bin , if thats the case fine, I have no issues!

 

[The Edge]

don't use them in the kitchen afterwards, but i clean mine with acetone/meths/white spirit or whatever solvent i have in abundance and use them again for car related stuff

 

[Dogbreath]

don't use them in the kitchen afterwards, but i clean mine with acetone/meths/white spirit or whatever solvent i have in abundance and use them again for car related stuff

Exactly...why would you throw them away? You don't even need any solvents, just give them a wipe over with a bit of rag or kitchen roll and put them away for next time.

 

[Clarkey]

Wipe with rag. Done. You get a pretty coloured flame if you burn the rag too, that wouldn't fit in with the hippy thing though, I wouldn't imagine.

 

[bledd]

just flush the oil down the toilet, that's what I do

out of sight, out of mind

 

[mattyprice4004]

There are places to recycle oil these days?

I assumed everyone just took the sump plug off and got out of the way of steaming hot oil pouring everywhere!

The Exxon Valdez tanker lost millions of oil to the sea, another 4 litres from my car aint gunna do any harm

 

[BigglesPiP]

Rinse the parts off in your cleaning sink. The waste oil will be deal with when you next change the fluid.

 

[Matt82]

just clean the funnel with a rag, spray it with some wd40 and wipe again if you want it to look really pretty...

 

[Sone]

let your boyfriend deal with it

 

[.one.]

Are you serious ? or are you trying to get into the mm

 

[Dr Who]

Wipe excess oil off and then bung in the dishwasher, I even clean engine parts in mine, well my landlady's

 

[VFR_KID]

Reminds me i have about 4 litres o the stuff to get wrid of.

Last load was in a milk carton. One of the big plastic ones. Couldnt be botherd ghoing to the dump so left it in the garage came in one day to find the carton had melted and was pouring oil everywhere. Wont do that again.

Must have affected the plastic some how.

 

[Glaucus]

wipe and save for next time, as for the oil it is the best weed killer known to man. Got a wall you always have weeds growing up the side of. Pour a thin line of the oil along the bottom. Or take it to the dump. absolutely no point throwing out funnels and stuff though. And if you really want to clean them use something like paraffin.

 

[Rich1988]

just flush the oil down the toilet, that's what I do

out of sight, out of mind

That would be soooo messy if someone tried that

 

[Bennie-Mac]

Pour the oil under your neighbours car so it looks like a huge leak.

 

[Jez]

There are places to recycle oil these days?

I assumed everyone just took the sump plug off and got out of the way of steaming hot oil pouring everywhere!

The Exxon Valdez tanker lost millions of oil to the sea, another 4 litres from my car aint gunna do any harm

I'm no tree hugger as you probably know but i really hope that you dont really do that

 

[Matt82]

Reminds me i have about 4 litres o the stuff to get wrid of.

ive got about 40-50 litres to get rid of. ive not chucked away any from oil changes over the last 12 months

big trip to the tip at the weekend... i ownz an estate now so no worries

 

[bledd]

my dad reuses mine as 'general oil' on the farm