what do you do with your oil

[Zak]

You can take it somewhere for free can't you? Think it was called Salters Oil or something. A few shell stations take it aswell.

Yup, salter cartage, 0800 SALTER I think

[neo]

check out the tips, i thought it was something they needed to provide?

Some of the old BP's might still collect waste oil

[mr2_t]

You can take it somewhere for free can't you? Think it was called Salters Oil or something. A few shell stations take it aswell.

Yup, salter cartage, 0800 SALTER I think

Oddly enough i went there today, with about 10 4L bottles, and they took the containers as well!
Down Roscommon, second on the left after Wiri Station Rd. Its listed as an alternative on the Hazmobile schedule:

http://www.hazmobile.govt.nz/pdf/calendar.pdf

Problem with the hazmobile is waiting for a particular date, then remembering to go...

[rolla_fxgt]

I just poor it in our wheelie bin, & they seem to pick it up, i guess the kitty litter might soak it up in that tho, hence why they havent complained yet.

[Infinite]

its great weed killer.

[no_8wire]

I just tip it in the rubble out the back... or burn it...

Hey oil came from the ground, Im just returning it to its home! Everything wants to go to its home!

[Infinite]

it can only improve the taste of waitkato water

[z0ton]

I just tip it in the rubble out the back... or burn it...

Hey oil came from the ground, Im just returning it to its home! Everything wants to go to its home!

It doesnt quite work like that. Its actually illegal to not dispose of oil properly.

[solitaire]

You lot are absolutely shocking...

If you pour oil in a wheelie bin you may as well pour it down your sink... it still ends up in the earth... it makes great weed killer because it is highly toxic and kills most things it gets into.

Come on lads, weve got a beautifull country here, lets keep it that way, oil may of 'come from the ground" but unless your prepared to drill back down to the depth it came from be an adult and dispose of it sensibly

[ollieboy]

Our local bus company take oil and do something to it and put it back in their buses

[Ae92typeX]

A 'some' above, I collect it and take familys share to the Hazmobile collections usually at 6ish month intervals. However they are reducing what they take, so hopefully its one item that wont be removed from their list.

[Grrrrrrr!]

:? You lot are absolutely shocking...

If you pour oil in a wheelie bin you may as well pour it down your sink... it still ends up in the earth... it makes great weed killer because it is highly toxic and kills most things it gets into.

Nope, pouring it on the ground is worse, if you pour it down the sink it'll go to the waste treatment plant where i think the systems they use can break some of it down.

Don't pour it down the stormwater drains, that just goes straight into the ocean usually.
Unless you have a spare planet in your back pocket how about we all just take it in for recycling mmkay!

[rollaholic]

:? You lot are absolutely shocking...

If you pour oil in a wheelie bin you may as well pour it down your sink... it still ends up in the earth... it makes great weed killer because it is highly toxic and kills most things it gets into.

Nope, pouring it on the ground is worse, if you pour it down the sink it'll go to the waste treatment plant where i think the systems they use can break some of it down.

Don't pour it down the stormwater drains, that just goes straight into the ocean usually.
Unless you have a spare planet in your back pocket how about we all just take it in for recycling mmkay!

think you might have mis read what sol was saying there - dont think hes condoning it being poured on the ground.

and yes, NZ is bad enough for the planet with our relaxed laws regarding vehicle emissions, lets not make it any worse than it already is

[method]

Well if it goes to a landfill it doesn't seep into the earth.

Landfills are lined and fully sealed. There are plenty of heavy metal leachates in landfills from other household items much more toxic than oil that they are trying to keep out of the earth.

Dont pour it down the sink or toilet etc... can cause a fire hazed and is not good for the waste water system, they use bacteria to brake poos & wees down, things such as oil will kill the bacteria.

Dispose of it properly. Or at least bottle it and put it in front of your local council building, they will know what to do with it seeing as they don't provide a good enough service

[Dell'Orto]

I'm just saving mine, so that when oil runs out I can be some sort of rich oil baron

no-one seems to take waste oil round here anymore

[solitaire]

think you might have mis read what sol was saying there - dont think hes condoning it being poured on the ground.

yep your right thanks mate - Im bascially trying to say that if you dont get it recycled properly you may as well just poor it into the town water supply... its black and white, your either disposing it properly or your being a selfish inconsiderate wayne ker

[crazed_silvertop]

A 'some' above, I collect it and take familys share to the Hazmobile collections usually at 6ish month intervals. However they are reducing what they take, so hopefully its one item that wont be removed from their list.

No, oil wont be one of the things they take off of their list - it's the easiest product they receive to get rid of (except for car batteries- they actually get paid for those!!)

They will start to refuse things like DDT, 245T and other nasty 'garden' chemicals.

[sergei]

I am sure they can synthesize whole bunch of stuff (petrol, synthetic oil, or even tar for roads) out of waste oil...

[fangsport]

ask your local roading company. they won't collect small amounts, but will usually recieve it willingly.

[barryogen]

Well if it goes to a landfill it doesn't seep into the earth.
Landfills are lined and fully sealed.

hmm, somehow I doubt that.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=green+island+dunedin&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.875284,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=-45.906987,170.409729&spn=0.006614,0.014591&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1

This is the tip about 1km from my house... the stream that goes between the two "landfills" is uninhabitable, up stream from this point it is fine and water is drinkable.

Maybe new tips/landfills are sealed, but existing ones are not. This one(public one on the right) is in year 18 of it's 48 year expected life... so 30 years(probably more) from now it'll still be leeching stuff into the stream, and killing anything and everything downstream of it.