Used motor oil

keithsfleet

Anyone know where you can dispose/recycle used engine/diff/gear oil? I know ballyogan civic recycling plant take it but as far as I know they only accept a maximum of 5 litres and that costs 24 euro. I currently have a wee bit more than that stored out my back from past services on my cars.

jayok

keithsfleet wrote: »

Anyone know where you can dispose/recycle used engine/diff/gear oil? I know ballyogan civic recycling plant take it but as far as I know they only accept a maximum of 5 litres and that costs 24 euro. I currently have a wee bit more than that stored out my back from past services on my cars.

Go to a breakers site that have waste aproval, and ask them to remove it. Otherwise, make multiple trips to the recycling plan?

If you've loads, you could go somewhere like www.enva.ie and ask them?

Mar4ix

I use to use this site - http://dublinwaste.ie/bring_bank.php?fac_pid=17

Disposal is free of charges. nobody looking how much oil you dumping in special container.

Edit : Also i got in halfords 5 l canister, which is handy use , when drain oil from engine, and than dispose oil , and reuse container again . - http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_209995_langId_-1_categoryId_212549

fenris

When I lived in Limerick I used to put the used oil into the bottle from the new oil, put the cap back on leave the bottle on the ground beside my bike and go back inside the house for a few minutes, three out of the four times I did this the bottle of used oil was robbed by the time I got back down.

TestTransmission

keithsfleet wrote: »

Anyone know where you can dispose/recycle used engine/diff/gear oil? I know ballyogan civic recycling plant take it but as far as I know they only accept a maximum of 5 litres and that costs 24 euro. I currently have a wee bit more than that stored out my back from past services on my cars.

€24?Only costs me €5 down here in Limerick at the recycling centre.

corktina

fenris wrote: »

When I lived in Limerick I used to put the used oil into the bottle from the new oil, put the cap back on leave the bottle on the ground beside my bike and go back inside the house for a few minutes, three out of the four times I did this the bottle of used oil was robbed by the time I got back down.

I did the same with a freezer...when clearing my late Mothers place, I simply left it on the front lawn and when I returned, gone.

Merch

isnt it free to dispose of oil in Dublin (somewhere in ballymount?) there must be civic centres elsewhere that are free too.

I thought it being free was the incentive to prevent people to not disposing of it other ways as it is so toxic/carcinogenic.

stimpson

Afaik it's free in all recycling centers. Certainly free in Ballyogan:

http://www.dublinwaste.ie/recycling_centre_charges_dlrd.html

Merch

Thats what I thought,
its just some posters are suggesting that it costs to dispose of used engine oil?

eth0

TestTransmission wrote: »

€24?Only costs me €5 down here in Limerick at the recycling centre.

I'd be expecting a fill of new oil if it costs that much. Never paid to get rid of it in Cork, only the 2 or 3e to get into the recycling place

biko

Free in the recycling centre in Liosban.

keithsfleet

Thanks folks, they have changed their policy on it me thinks. Or else i must of being talking to the crazy homeless guy that hangs out in Ballyogan recycling centre and he was trying to shaft me.

two wheels good

Mar4ix wrote: »

Edit : Also i got in halfords 5 l canister, which is handy use , when drain oil from engine, and than dispose oil , and reuse container again . - http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_209995_langId_-1_categoryId_212549

Or you could cut the side off a 5L plastic oil container.

wandererz

I disposed of some oil in Ballyogan last year and it was free. Tell the guy at the gate you're disposing of oil, take your container to the drums at the back and pour it into the large oil drums.

Handy if you have a re-usable oil collector/ disposal can. Picked one up at Halfords last week for 8 euro.

keithsfleet

You could just spend 50 cent in homebase on a funnel and use the 5litre container that comes free with the oil you bought to put in the car after you had drained the sump.

eth0

The oil can be recycled into new oil so really you are doing them a favour by bringing it to them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_oil_recycling