If you run an auto service shop or a business like a kitchen and fast food restaurant, you might find that you have overflowing barrels of waste oil. Where do you dispose of the waste oil?
If you usually dispose of it by pouring it down a drain or in your surroundings, you are making a huge mistake! First, oils and drains do not mix and usually cause drainage blockage at some point. Secondly, disposing of waste oil in your surrounding area is considered pollution; you are slowly destroying the environment. Here's what you need to know about waste oil disposal.
Waste Oil Collection
Waste oil collection companies do exist, and you should get in touch with one as soon as possible. They offer free waste oil collection, meaning you get to easily dispose of your waste oil at no cost. You can even make a collection schedule with the waste oil collection company to ensure you don't stack up many barrels of waste oil in your premises.
When looking for such a company, ensure that they handle the kind of waste oil you have, which can either be engine oil, cooking oil, hydraulic oil, oil filters, sump oil or oily water. The company can also provide you with waste oil collection drums that they will empty, clean and replace.
Another service offered by waste oil collection companies is professional removal and cleaning of grease, oil, carbon and rust from the exterior and interior surfaces of machines, equipment and appliances.
What Happens to Waste Oil?
Waste oil is usually recycled and refined to create base, process or fuel oil, which is sold at an affordable price. You mainly benefit from the affordable prices and the fact that the environment is conserved by not disposing of waste oil in any water body or landfill. Companies benefit from profits made by selling recycled and refined waste oil.
Waste oil recycling and refining companies must follow all EPA (Environment Protection Authority) rules and regulations as well as any other regulatory requirements that might be required by law. Consumers need to be protected from poor quality oil products and so does the environment. This is why you should ensure that the waste oil collection company you contact shows you documents (this can be in the form of a certificate from EPA and the local government) that indicate it complies with the necessary regulations.
Get rid of your waste oil today by contacting a waste oil collection company.
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