How do you Disposae of used motor oil?

Need another reason? You give do-it-yourselfers a bad name. The EPA had already made it harder to buy good automotive paint due environmetal concerns. Callifornia tried to pass a law requiring all oil drain plugs to have a lock on them, so that do-it-yourselfers couldn't change their own oil, due to concerns about used oil and the environment. Don't give all of us a bad name.

Like someone said, you can check with your local county health department, or your state EPA office. Some states are better than others.

If you live in Illinois, you are in luck. The Illinois EPA has their stuff together, and has hazardous waste drop-offs all throughout the state all year. Check out>Link

They>Link also hold collections every weekend in Rockford and Naperville.

Bonus--they also have used tire collections, too. And they don't care how much you've got.

If you can't get someone to pick it up, then you may have to find a store that will take it. You may have to carry it in five gallons at a time, because most stores have a limit to how much they'll take.

I mean he!! it came from the ground didnt it.

Personally, I live on a gravel road, and tend to dispose of my used motor oil as dust control in that road. I do it in small amounts, and no one says anything to me about it--I don't think it hurts a thing. But I wouldn't try to get away with spreading 300 gallons! That would be asking for trouble I don't want to deal with.... Good luck!

Better watch about mixing that oil with dust..the greenies a few posts below insist that you inject it thousands of feet deep. Junk science and paranoia is the ruination of rural life. They are not satsified to rid Los Angeles and NYC of smog, they intend to save the world from itself. Crude oil, a naturally occuring substance, the byproduct of decomposed plant life millions of years old, is harmful to the environment that created it...especially if it contains the hydrocarbons of combustion....which is what oil is, a complex hydrocarbon...makes sense, huh? Yeah, just like the rest of the junk science they push. I am not saying you should dump an oil tanker full of crude in the ocean.....although Mother Nature can and will take care of that too....she has self contained natural oil seeps for a few hundred million years....but it does have a way of screwing up beaches and killing a few critters when it happens. Envirochondria is a neurosis sweeping the nation, tell a lie long enough and it becomes the truth. Now, allow the greenies space to scream..here it comes.