What happens with used engine oil?

Question

What do they do with it after you have dropped it off at the recycle bin? Can it be cleaned and re-used in another capacity?

Answer 1

Yes,

Here are some sites that help. Much of it can be used as lubricating oil again.

Answer 2

its dumped into the ocean and your local lakes.

Answer 3

Many service stations have dual-fuel oil burners- that is, they can burn waste oil to heat their facility in the winter.



Most oil is reprocessed- it gets run through a centerfuge, separating contaminants from the oil base. From there, additives can be added in to return the oil to it's correct properties (pour point, flash point, color, refractometry), making up for any burned-off microcomponants.

Answer 4

Used motor oils can recycled into home heating oil, re-refined into motor oil, used in making cement or even used in specially designed small space heaters.

Recycling motor oil also uses much less power to re-refined, in some cases 50-75%

There are so many benefits but none are more compelling than it a fact that used motor oil is one of the most toxic sustances we can casually come into contact with.

1 quart of used motor oil can contaminate 250,000 gallons fresh water or over 40,000 cubic feet of soil. An average car has 5 quarts and 3 oil changes a year. There are 241 million registered cars in the U.S.

Contact has been shown to increase the risk of skin cancers and can obviously make you sick if you ingest it.

Used motor oil is responsible for a large portion of the total pollution of US waterways and harbors.

Answer 5

We use it to keep the weeds down out around the back of the house.

Answer 6

its ether recycled, or burned as fuel, it can but is expensive be made into diesel fuel.

Answer 7

Well, they can recycle it, burn it , or let it go down the drain.

Answer 8

global warming sucks! its bad! stop polluting! stop it! im serious u blooper scooper! no that name is too nice im gonna call u poopy face cause ur face looks like my grandma's p**p