Most modern motor oil has a synthetic make up (Some are 100% synthetic) and it doesn't break down easily and needs to be disposed off in the right way.

I know a guy who works for the borough of Windsor & Maidenhead and they go through the draining system to track down folk who have chucked oil down drains.

 

Most modern motor oil has a synthetic make up (Some are 100% synthetic) and it doesn't break down easily and needs to be disposed off in the right way.

Yes.. good point about 'synthetic'...

 

I wouldn't want it in my water table.

 

Unlike you, I don't have one of these fancy water tables... Mine's made of wood...

Seriously though, I'm not on about pouring it directly into waterways ec, but directly (and in small quantities) into soil...

I've never tried it, and never will. I like the idea that the stuff can be recycled at the yard anyway...

I know that if I ploughed 15 minutes of research into the web, I'd find some pure horror stories... but earlier, after looking for about 5 minutes, all I could see was a bunch of people saying how bad it was, but not having the reasoning behind their statements.. I like my facts, that's all

 

BUT... is it really that bad? Maybe it's not bad at all, and actually superb as a fertiliser/plant food used in small quantities, or maybe not at all, and would kill any plants within a gnat's beak of it...

I use it to paint our fences with, obviously it gets dripped onto plants etc, they're fine

 

I used my waste oil in Darren's Quorsa.

 

When I had a job an American manager was brought in (to learn the ropes before America make their own flu vaccine!), this guy was was from Chicago, out in the sticks, a good few hours from anything like a city he said. Anyway, he used to work at a place that created a lot of oil based waste, the factory then decided to plant loads of trees in the surrounding area, this land was oil contaminated. The trees thrive on it apparently and they draw the pollution out of the ground, then they are cut down and used as fuel, then they plant more trees, etc etc.

 

That's quite interesting...

 

That's not made of water, it's just full of it. Not the same thing.

meh.

 

That's not made of water, it's just full of it. Not the same thing.

meh.

Now you're just picking holes

 

i had to get rid of 30 litres of jet A! fuel a while ago, one of the maintainence lads where i had it, said pour it over the weeds on the gravel parking area, so i did. the weeds are still there it had no effect.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10634296

will that do?

 

Thames Water says it has removed enough fat to fill nine double decker buses from London's sewers.

You'd think they'd find a better way to transport it? Must have made a right mess of the seats...