On 7/30/2011 10:58 PM, Steve B wrote:
"The Daring wrote


I was at a cloned box auto parts store a while back and saw a notice
posted about how the store was now accepting waste motor oil for disposal.
I asked a store employee about it and he handed a huge sheaf
of government and EPA documents that had to be filled out in order for
the store to accept my waste motor oil. I remembered what happened to a
large group of people who took their old car batteries to a lead recycling
company that went out of business. The government took the records
consisting of the paperwork filled out by the customers of the
defunct company who thought they were doing a good thing for the
environment and demanded that those people pay for the cleanup of the
hazardous waste at the site of the closed company. I changed my mind
about taking my used motor oil to the auto parts store and found a
friendly manager at an oil change service who took my old oil without
any hassle.

TDD

I bought a house. Included was about 50 gallons of waste oil, 5 gal.
buckets of roofing butyl, and assorted 5 gal. buckets of gook. I took the
oil to the box store that sells auto parts. Have to have a receipt that
says you bought 5 gal. of oil THERE in order to turn in the 5 gal. of used
oil. Called JiffyLube. No can do. Called the landfill. They have an
"amnesty" day ONCE A YEAR where they will take anything no questions asked.
The next one is this spring.

And they wonder why people take this crud and dump it in the desert.

Steve



The law of unintended results states: Whenever a government gets
involved with any human activity, it can always be counted on to turn it
into a complete cluster coitus. ^_^

TDD