Benefits of Recycling Used Oil Filters A used oil filter can hold three ounces of recyclable oil and enough contaminants to pollute 80,000 gallons of water. UOCS may accept used oil filters from DIYs. Contracting with a used oil filter recycler could benefit your business by ensuring that there will be no adverse environmental impact from your management of used oil filters, no leachate problems from land disposal, and no superfund liability. Besides the environmental benefits of doing even more to conserve national resources and prevent pollution, recycling used oil filters provides additional service to customers that can further enhance your image in the community. From H.W. Regs Garages and service stations are exempt from handling used oil filters as hazardous waste as long as the filters are managed according to the Commonwealth's residual waste regulations.
Improper management can result in loss of exemption.
In this case, the garage or service station would be required to handle the filters as hazardous waste. Please call if you have any questions pertaining to the regulations. The newest used oil recycling challenge is to encourage the public to buy recycled lubricating oil. While using recovered oil as fuel is far better than improper disposal, there is more environmental value in re-refining and recycling it indefinitely. Encouraging consumers to purchase re-refined oil will help close the recycling loop and add purpose to environmental efforts expended to date.