![]() Hey - maybe second-hand smoke in the workplace really is hazardous to your health after all? Not because of the tens of thousands of dead truckstop waitresses, but rather because it makes a headline every once in a while. Their excuse for how it happened was reminiscent of the U.S.S. ![]() ![]() Which is to say - Just throwing all of that used oil into a big tank somewhere doesn't mean it's actually going to be recycled. Though one has to look past the window-dressing - After all, I WAS sitting on my bike stopped at a red light down on the foot of Edmonton trail looking directly East down Memorial Drive in Calgary Alberta, just as the HUB OIL explosion went off in a small mushroom cloud just shy of the horizon. I'm GLAD that I can mix it with my used motor-oil, that the unfractionated remains will be burned as bunker oil or whatever you call it. Gotta remember what Jello Biafra said in "Why I'm glad the space-shuttle blew up"! Ha-ha. I'm not suggesting we should launch it into space or anything. S'pose my POINT being, if one's local Public-owned-waste-disposal sites advise you to flush it down the shitter, maybe they should employ some other better method. If we've come THAT far in our established disposal protocols, we can make it the rest of the way. If it didn't, we'd be spreading it on toast, or giving it to schoolchildren to huff out of a paper bag. ![]() How many millions of Liters of this shit are produced in a year? It does actually matter wtf we do with it. To my mind, I figured if it's properly sequestered in the kitty-litter, it would stay out of the air & water! If it is indeed somehow petroleum compatible, I've only got to ask whether it's another GREENHOUSE "super-gas" where it's effects are many times greater than the Carbon-Dioxide which would result from it's combustion. Honestly, the kitty-litter sounded like a good idea until I realized this was Intended as a means to increase surface area & thereby speed evaporation. Maybe it's the fact I used to be a hardcore aquarium geek, maybe bit's my hippie-dippy upbringing, maybe it's the fact that I live on this fucking planet - but it would be interesting to know what all the stuff will actually DO in the water or for that matter the air. Let's not forget that the majority of these types of regulations have been around since the 1950s, or at least from some point in the Cold-War when nuclear holocaust was a foregone conclusion and the notion of a "7th generation" would've seemed unlikely at best, and so the remaining imperative being that of minimising workload for others, & the onus was on the individual to "party like it's 1999"! But by the same token, I don't find it very reassuring that the public water works just doesn't give a damn about these sorts of products being flushed down the shitter. It's wonderful to think that I do a google-search and ADVrider pops up as the first answer. If you want to go all Erin Brockovitch google up 40 CFR 264 and read some boring crap, or just put it in the shitcan and be done with it Here in Indiana where liberals are pretty scarce, and therefore so is envirronmental regulation, the local Solid Waste Management Districts do the tox-away thing. I would imagine that many of the counties in states that have eliminated the HHW exemption have a Tox-Away-Day type program where they either collect them throughout the year or have annaul collection days for you to drop them off. However, USEPA says that states may impose more stringent regulations than those published by the feds so YOUR state may regulate it that way, not all do, and most do not.Īs far as the kitty litter slurry, it can go into the trash as well under the HHW exemption, if not more stringently regulated by your state. I know not the most tree hugging hippy alternative but it's there. It all goes to a secondary refinery where it is processed and split into fractions, then sent to other refiners/blenders to be either returned to the production cycle, or if it's too heavy it'll go to a cement kiln for burner fuel.ĪZRamjet, there is an exemption in the federal hazardous waste regulations for "housesold hazardous waste" (HHW) which pretty much says that as long as it's coming from a homeowner it can go in the trash for disposal, no matter how hazardous/toxic it is. The short answer is if you want to recycle it mix it with the oil as stated above. I happen to work in the hazardous waste business (whoopie, I know) and get questions like this alot from clients and friends. Click to expand.There answere is there is no "THE" answer, but
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