Its not a big hassle to get rid of drain oil around here--all our local landfills and transfer stations are required by law to accept it from residents with proof of residency.no dump stickers or fee is charged for oil,batteries,scrap metal and glass--some towns do put a limit on how much you can bring at one time though.I usually give my drain oil to a few garages who have waste oil heaters(they have become rather popular here,so much so that one garage pays you to bring it to them,not a lot though)--and there are greenhouses down the road from me that accept it to heat their greenhouses free.I keep a gallon or two here to fill my squirt type oil cans(I filter it through an old sock)and use in my chain saw,also use a little each time to light my wood stoves in the shop.When I change oil in the winter and the stove is going,I put the filter right in there with the wood--it burns cleanly and VERY hot!--one winter I used the large cartridge type filter elements from big diesels like macks as logs for fuel in the wood stove at a large steel building we worked at--a local semi garage had over 100 of them to get rid of--as long as the fire is going good with a bed of coals,it burns like a gas log in a fireplace!,and we saved all the metal mesh from them for recycling also(a few pieces got nailed to the wall for a sheetrock patch!).I also use some drain oil on my trucks frames and undercarriage as a rust deterrent--any left over oil goes into my friends trojan forkloader at the scrapyard,it leaks pretty bad,and hydraulic oil is expensive--all told I have no excuse not to dispose of it properly--they make it fairly easy.You do have to supply your own containers,and sometimes you have to leave them along with the oil.I use large liquid laundry detergent bottles with the wide mouth lids and screw on caps--I hate milk jugs with the push on caps,had too many of them pop off if you put the jug down a little too hard,and I've had a flood in the bed of the truck more than once due to that style of cap-(oh well,at least it will rot more slowly!)-only screw on caps are accepted at the landfill now.Its much better than years ago,when most people would pour in in sewers,or bury it in the backyard--after I moved here and took up metal detecting for a hobby,I found over 20 rusty oil and tranny filters,a small block camshaft,a 57 chevy hood ornament(!)and several battery terminal ends and at least four sets of bedsprings--and this was a vacant lot and apple orchard when we moved here!. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
