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Several months ago I went to the local landfill (household hazardous waste drop off site). I turned over the usual stuff, oil, brake fluid, batteries, broken electronics & a couple of fluorescent bulbs. While talking with the attendant he said they also take used oil filters and recycle them. So I guess I will be recycling my old oil filters now as well.
Between what I can recycle at the landfill, and what they pickup at the curb I am having a hard time filling even one bag of trash in a week or two. I am finding now that I take the trash out not because it is full, but because it is getting old.
Tom
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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If you have noticed a lot of car manufacturers are going back to cartrige oil filters like the old days rather than the metal filters that we have grown accustomed to. I was told the reason for this is that filter can be burnt and all that is left is ashes rather than a metal cansiter. Also when you throw out a canister oil filter you are also throwing out a canister of oil as well. If you recycle the oil at a oil recycling point you are not putting that much waste into the waste stream when cartrige filters are used. Making for a greener environment. But where did that oil come from in the first place? The ground!  
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But where did that oil come from in the first place? The ground!
...or off the Louisiana Gulf Coast maybe???   
(BTW Tom, glad to hear you're recyclin'!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Where I work we crush the filters to squeeze the used oil out then recycle both.
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Loquacious
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put some gas in them & light them up they make nice candles
we should do this every weekend!
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put some gas in them & light them up they make nice candles
Redneck tiki torch? Probably would keep the bugs away for sure...
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Loquacious
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I burn my used oil to run off skeeters & gnats.
we should do this every weekend!
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