USED OILS

[dickfoster]

Anyone who sells oil in Ma has to take the used oil.

Same here in the Peoples Republic. Same thing with car batteries. If they sell em new they gotta take the old.

 

[dickfoster]

Yes I can burn anything and up to 10 tires per year. I don,t burn tires too many other good uses for them.
Not sure about burning oils will check. I have a walmart and 2 oil change services nearby will check with them.

They'd have a hissy fit and lock us up for burning a tire in this state.

 

[jack707]

I guess you can't burn shingles

 

[CCWKen]

Wow! I didn't mean to start such a hissy-fit.

For all you environmental police out there consider this, There's about 4 Million miles of asphalt roadway in the US. What do you think that's made of? It's laying on the ground, subject to rain and water runoff. Where do you think that water goes? Yep, in the ground.

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And if you were really serious about protecting the environment for future generations, you'd junk your tractors and lawnmowers and go back to sickles and scythes. :dance1:

 

[roadhunter]

Wow! I didn't mean to start such a hissy-fit.

For all you environmental police out there consider this, There's about 4 Million miles of asphalt roadway in the US. What do you think that's made of? It's laying on the ground, subject to rain and water runoff. Where do you think that water goes? Yep, in the ground.

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And if you were really serious about protecting the environment for future generations, you'd junk your tractors and lawnmowers and go back to sickles and scythes. :dance1:

Actually you did. This is clearly a troll job.

Asphalt does not equal used motor oil. I figured a Texan would know the difference. But if you want to continue to brag about dumping oil on the ground feel free. It only reflects poorly on you, much like the trolling in this thread.

I am serious about protecting the environment for future generations and do what I can to help keep oil out of our water, hopefully at some point you will as well.

 

[4570Man]

I save my used oil for burning brush piles, but the local recycling place takes used oil.

 

[pmsmechanic]

Now I think there is a bit too much excitement going on about dumping oil on the ground. If you dump it into a stream of water yes it's going to contaminate it. If oil gets dumped onto the ground there are soil microbes that enjoy eating the oil. If they didn't there would be no grass growing in the ditches along highways. Pavement might be some sort of special oil but it still pollutes the immediate environment with oil.

Now don't take me wrong here. I'm not advocating dumping oil into the environment. There are better uses for used oil than just dumping it onto the ground.

 

[CreekyB]

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And if you were really serious about protecting the environment for future generations, you'd junk your tractors and lawnmowers and go back to sickles and scythes. :dance1:

Or you know, use modern technology as responsibly as you possibly could with the goal being keeping the earth plentiful for future generations. But that is just me and all I can control, I understand the values that I have may not be important to some people. Even some people who depend on the land to support them and their families. I can even respect that to a certain extent, until I witness it, then there is a call to the actual environmental police to be made.

 

[bdog]

I store mine in a 275 gallon tote. When it gets full about once a year I call the local oil recycling place and they come pump it out for free.

 

[sleepybozo]

I guess you can't burn shingles

Nope. No building materials at all, not even scrap 2x4s. You can burn on permissive burn days, which are controlled by two agencies, CalFire (the state fire dept.) and Air Quality board. CalFire is concerned with burn conditions, obviously, to minimize run away control burns, because some people can't figure when it's 95 deg out with 10% humidity and there's a 20 mph wind, it could be dangerous to burn. Air Quality has sensors all over (kinda) and is concerned with pollution. Because of sensor locations, if air quality is bad at a location 60 miles away, even if the wind is blowing in a favorable direction, we can't burn.

The rules as written are a little complex, but basically they say natural materials only, and if it didn't grow on your property, you can't burn it. Can't have dirt mixed in with the pile, either, so wash those stumps! If you milled your own lumber from your own trees, it's now building material and you can't burn it. If your neighbor and you want to consolidate burn piles, too bad, it didn't grow on your property. I have two parcels of land (25 miles apart); I can't bring stuff from one parcel and burn it on the other. You need a residential burn permit (free, amazingly) that's good for one or two years, depending on who issues it, but it's only good for 4'x4'x4' piles; if burned simultaneously multiple piles have to separated by 20' of cleared ground (that's bare dirt, not just mowed), any bigger and you need a special permit each day that you burn it. You need and adult in attendance as long as the pile is hot, at least 5 gallons of water or a garden hose that reaches all around the pile, and a shovel and rake near by.

Ah, land of the free ...