How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

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Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

apparently if you leave it to settle then decant off the now clear
liquid you can use it again

--
Kevin R
Reply address works

Kevin wrote:

apparently if you leave it to settle then decant off the now clear
liquid you can use it again

Yes, BTDTWTTS. You can use it over and over again for brush cleaning. I
usually end up with a few bits of gungey goo on the brush because I don't
decant it carefully enough but a final wash in warm water and washing up
liquid sorts that out.

--
Mike Clarke

Kevin wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make
my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

apparently if you leave it to settle then decant off the now clear
liquid you can use it again

From advice given in this group several years ago I recycle. White
spirit from washing brushes goes into a container. After a few days,
when the solids have settled, the liquid is decanted into another
container. This is used to wash brushes and the dirty spirit goes back
into the first container. The original post suggested that the final
clean as doune with new white spirit. This will keep the system 'topped up'

Malcolm

Kevin wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make
my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

apparently if you leave it to settle then decant off the now clear
liquid you can use it again


Indeed you can, but it's as well to keep a fresh batch for cleaning
hands etc.
The solids can just be binned eventually.

stuart noble wrote:
Kevin wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in
it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh
Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make
my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

apparently if you leave it to settle then decant off the now clear
liquid you can use it again


Indeed you can, but it's as well to keep a fresh batch for cleaning
hands etc.
The solids can just be binned eventually.
Please don't use white spirit for cleaning hands, try Solpol
http://www.martsafety.co.uk/index.ph...roducts_id=601

In message alid,
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.



Tip it down the nearest drain.


--
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

Alan wrote:

In message alid,
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.



Tip it down the nearest drain.


I have a better idea.

Why don't you pour it over your clothes (with you in them) and set
fire to it? The world would benefit from having one fewer grossly
irresponsible person.

In message , Bruce
wrote
Alan wrote:

In message alid,
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.



Tip it down the nearest drain.


I have a better idea.

Why don't you pour it over your clothes (with you in them) and set
fire to it? The world would benefit from having one fewer grossly
irresponsible person.


It's a lot less damaging than all the detergent you probably tip down
the drain on a daily basis.

Where do you think 90% of the white spirit purchased for the DIY market
goes at the end of its life? Have a few more tips that refuse to take
it and that figure could soon be 100%.

--
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

"Alan" wrote in message
...
In message , Bruce
wrote
Alan wrote:

In message alid,
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in
it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh
Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my
own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.



Tip it down the nearest drain.


I have a better idea.

Why don't you pour it over your clothes (with you in them) and set
fire to it? The world would benefit from having one fewer grossly
irresponsible person.


It's a lot less damaging than all the detergent you probably tip down the
drain on a daily basis.

Where do you think 90% of the white spirit purchased for the DIY market
goes at the end of its life? Have a few more tips that refuse to take it
and that figure could soon be 100%.

In the rivers and canals, unlike detergents that end up in treatment plants.
Drains frequently just discharge into rivers, sewers don't.

But why would someone irresponsible know the difference?

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:39:34 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

snip

In the rivers and canals, unlike detergents that end up in treatment
plants. Drains frequently just discharge into rivers, sewers don't.



The various chemicals that do eventually make their way to "sewage" (more
accurately "waste water") treatment plants cause all sorts of problems.
In some ways its a good job that a few noxious chemicals bypass them as
they can damage the bacteria necessary for the plant to work effectively!

--
Mick (Working in a M$-free zone!)
Web: http://www.nascom.info http://mixpix.batcave.net
Filtering everything posted from googlegroups to kill spam.

dennis@home wrote:


In the rivers and canals, unlike detergents that end up in treatment
plants.
Drains frequently just discharge into rivers, sewers don't.

But why would someone irresponsible know the difference?


Isn't a sewer simply a major drain - ie several drains flow into a
sewer? If I remember correctly, for domestic systems at least, a drain
is defined as serving only one property.

Dave

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:10:40 +0100, Bruce wrote:

I have a better idea.

That would make a nice change Bruce.


Why don't you pour it over your clothes (with you in them) and set
fire to it? The world would benefit from having one fewer grossly
irresponsible person.

And you can demonstrate the technique to him, so he knows how to do it
correctly. It would be a first in here as a practical contribution
from you.

Bruce wrote:
Alan wrote:

In message alid,
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.


Tip it down the nearest drain.


I have a better idea.

Why don't you pour it over your clothes (with you in them) and set
fire to it? The world would benefit from having one fewer grossly
irresponsible person.

better still pour it all over you.

In time it evaporates from everywhere, so you would need to strike a
match quickly.

Dumoping a few tanker lorry full down a drain is nad news, A few cc is
meaningless: theres probably more in the after booze up **** of the
average pub, or similar organic chemicals.

Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

It seems to me that the shops that sell it should take it back. But I
have a nasty feeling that if they had to do so, no-one would sell it any
more.

--
Rod

Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org

Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

Mix it with detergent and pour it down the drain

pour it on a bonfire and set light to it.

Mix it with washing up liquid and make 'swarfega'

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make
my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

Mix it with detergent and pour it down the drain

pour it on a bonfire and set light to it.

Mix it with washing up liquid and make 'swarfega'

It takes an awful lot of washing up liquid to disperse white spirit,
probably an equal amount

"stuart noble" wrote in message
...
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in
it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh
Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my
own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

Mix it with detergent and pour it down the drain

pour it on a bonfire and set light to it.

Mix it with washing up liquid and make 'swarfega'

It takes an awful lot of washing up liquid to disperse white spirit,
probably an equal amount

Hard to believe there are those here recommending illegal dumping of waste
solvent. Hope the EA is monitoring!

Treating the road drains as waste disposal chutes is, along with plumbing-in
waste outlets to the wrong system, the main source of pollution incidents to
our rivers. Seems there are no anglers in this group.

Also, emulsified solvents do much more damage than plain solvent: the
emulsion introduces the poison much more effectively into the water
environment. In fact, some of the worst pollution incidents the old NRA
used to report were when things like milk - an emulsion - got into the
water.

By the same token, water soluble solvents are even more dangerous. When in
some states they began to add water soluble ketones to fuel as a 'green'
measure, the pollution around filling stations was much more severe and the
migration of the solvents into the water supply was much more difficult to
prevent and nigh impossible to clean up.

Also. waste solvent is an increasingly valuable commodity which should be
offered up for recycling. If your tip is currently unable to deal with
waste solvent, then ring your council's environmental health department and
ask them where you should take the solvent for recycling.

That said. There is rarely enough 'waste' for the home user, after the
various reusing suggestions here have been followed, and if you do have an
emulsion left over to get rid of, it will make a handy weedkiller (though
indeed, not an approved one!).

S

"Spamlet" wrote in message
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"stuart noble" wrote in message
...
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in
it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh
Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it
away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make
my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

Mix it with detergent and pour it down the drain

pour it on a bonfire and set light to it.

Mix it with washing up liquid and make 'swarfega'

It takes an awful lot of washing up liquid to disperse white spirit,
probably an equal amount

Hard to believe there are those here recommending illegal dumping of waste
solvent. Hope the EA is monitoring!

Treating the road drains as waste disposal chutes is, along with
plumbing-in waste outlets to the wrong system, the main source of
pollution incidents to our rivers. Seems there are no anglers in this
group.

Also, emulsified solvents do much more damage than plain solvent: the
emulsion introduces the poison much more effectively into the water
environment. In fact, some of the worst pollution incidents the old NRA
used to report were when things like milk - an emulsion - got into the
water.

By the same token, water soluble solvents are even more dangerous. When
in some states they began to add water soluble ketones to fuel as a
'green' measure, the pollution around filling stations was much more
severe and the migration of the solvents into the water supply was much
more difficult to prevent and nigh impossible to clean up.

Also. waste solvent is an increasingly valuable commodity which should be
offered up for recycling. If your tip is currently unable to deal with
waste solvent, then ring your council's environmental health department
and ask them where you should take the solvent for recycling.

That said. There is rarely enough 'waste' for the home user, after the
various reusing suggestions here have been followed, and if you do have an
emulsion left over to get rid of, it will make a handy weedkiller (though
indeed, not an approved one!).

S

Oh, and by the way, as I recall, most 'white spirit' is already recycled
from waste solvents: it has an extremely variable composition, which used to
make formulating stuff from it very tricky, with every barrel having to be
individually tested, and a wary eye kept out for the water that was likely
to be at the bottom too!

S

Spamlet wrote:
"stuart noble" wrote in message
...
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in
it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh
Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make my
own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

Mix it with detergent and pour it down the drain

pour it on a bonfire and set light to it.

Mix it with washing up liquid and make 'swarfega'
It takes an awful lot of washing up liquid to disperse white spirit,
probably an equal amount

Hard to believe there are those here recommending illegal dumping of waste
solvent. Hope the EA is monitoring!
...

That said. There is rarely enough 'waste' for the home user, after the
various reusing suggestions here have been followed, and if you do have an
emulsion left over to get rid of, it will make a handy weedkiller (though
indeed, not an approved one!).

Far worse of course than into the sewage system, where it will get
treated and filtered and allowed to evaporate: straight into the ground
water..heck why not?



S

stuart noble wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in
it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh
Sighthill)
council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told to take it away
again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was too polite to make
my own
suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

Mix it with detergent and pour it down the drain

pour it on a bonfire and set light to it.

Mix it with washing up liquid and make 'swarfega'

It takes an awful lot of washing up liquid to disperse white spirit,
probably an equal amount

Never said it didn't...

Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
How is one meant to get rid of white spirit after cleaning brushes in
it?

I took some jars of dirty white spirit to the local (Edinburgh
Sighthill) council tip yesterday, amongst other stuff, and was told
to take it away again, because they had nowwhere to put it. I was
too polite to make my own suggestion, though I was sorely tempted.

I previous years where the sun has actually appeared in summer, I poured it
onto some rags on a metal or china plate, and let the sun's heat evaporate
it over a day or two.

Not sure that would have worked this year or last. Mind you, it might have
floated away somewhere else...

--

Jeff

Jeff Layman wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:

I previous years where the sun has actually appeared in summer, I poured it
onto some rags on a metal or china plate, and let the sun's heat evaporate
it over a day or two.

Not sure that would have worked this year or last. Mind you, it might have
floated away somewhere else...


This too is not a good idea. Evaporated hydrocarbons are a major cause
of photochemical smog... which is why paints these days are marked "low
VOC".

Andy

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:44:49 +0100, Andy Champ
wrote:

Jeff Layman wrote:
Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:

I previous years where the sun has actually appeared in summer, I poured it
onto some rags on a metal or china plate, and let the sun's heat evaporate
it over a day or two.

Not sure that would have worked this year or last. Mind you, it might have
floated away somewhere else...


This too is not a good idea. Evaporated hydrocarbons are a major cause
of photochemical smog...

Which as we all know would have ben a big issue this year (not really)
had the sun been able to get through the clouds and the rain.

which is why paints these days are marked "low
VOC".

And you have to repaint 3 times as often.

Derek

www.spiritreclaimer.com - you can wash your brushes in it and then it
recycles the white spirit so you can use it again!

url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/1391139601.aspx

On Oct 2, 11:58*am, wrote:
www.snipped- you can wash your brushes in it and then it
recycles the white spirit so you can use it again!

snipped

we really are that stupid


NT

NT wrote:

On Oct 2, 11:58*am, wrote:
www.snipped- you can wash your brushes in it and then it
recycles the white spirit so you can use it again!

snipped

we really are that stupid

Quite!

I find two old jam jars work fine. By the time I'm on my next
painting job, all the grot in jar 1 has settled, and I can decant
clean fluid into jar 2. By the subsequent job, the sediment has
dried enough to be scraped out of jar 1, and it is then ready for
clean fluid again.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

Chris J Dixon wrote:
NT wrote:

On Oct 2, 11:58 am, wrote:
www.snipped- you can wash your brushes in it and then it
recycles the white spirit so you can use it again!

snipped

we really are that stupid

Quite!

I find two old jam jars work fine. By the time I'm on my next
painting job, all the grot in jar 1 has settled, and I can decant
clean fluid into jar 2. By the subsequent job, the sediment has
dried enough to be scraped out of jar 1, and it is then ready for
clean fluid again.

This is the heap of crap that the Dragons laughed out of the den.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:36:51 GMT, Chris J Dixon
wrote:

NT wrote:

On Oct 2, 11:58*am, wrote:
www.snipped- you can wash your brushes in it and then it
recycles the white spirit so you can use it again!

snipped

we really are that stupid

Quite!

I find two old jam jars work fine. By the time I'm on my next
painting job, all the grot in jar 1 has settled, and I can decant
clean fluid into jar 2. By the subsequent job, the sediment has
dried enough to be scraped out of jar 1, and it is then ready for
clean fluid again.

And if it hasn't settled out you are working too fast ;-)