I noticed this week that my local supercheap has installed an oil recycling bin out the front of the shop. Quite a good thought.

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"Popular Science" hey.... but people still do that, even people on here have suggested it

I have a really old kids book on camping, and it says to dispose of your rubbish by digging a hole, putting all the rubbish in and covering it over

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Its been anchored in industry for a while now that industries that distribute hazardous materials, should also provide a point for the return of the materials once they're used. A bit like phone shops with the phone recycling bins for collecting and recycling of lithium batteries.

Its mostly a heavy commercial industry issue, but some retailers with a reputation to protect, or a moral backbone are taking it up.

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Australian Army guidance back in the 1960's whilst living in the bush was BURN, BASH, BURY. First burn any tins or other containers to remove food scraps that could attract animals, bash to reduce size and then bury. Theory was they would rust away after a few years. Minimal plastic back then.

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Don't SC just take the old oil out the back, strain it through a sock and sell it as the chief oil?

Equally unacceptable was an old trick back in London.
Put the used oil in the new container and leave it on a steet corner..............
Always got nicked.

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Isn't this what the Government does with Land Fill

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My mate used to live in an inner city housing development. There were some pretty ordinary neighbours. Their technique was to park the car with one wheel on the footpath so that the oil drain plug was over the gutter and just drop it on the ground. It would find its way down street to the drain eventually.

Oil is biodegradable and if the conditions are right micro-organisms in the soil will break it down. It gets rid of the hydrocarbons but the heavy metals and other contaminants remain. In warm moist climates it happens reasonably quickly, so that if you weren't dumping heaps of it into the ground it would probably be OK. Several of my colleagues are developing techniques to remediate oil spills in the Antarctic, which is neither warm or moist, it takes a lot longer but still works.

Tim

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it's a bit different when it's a nice camping spot in the bush

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It came from the ground, so the ground we return it

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German laws say that if you discharge into a river, your intake must be downstream of your discharge. This means that industry makes sure they don't suck their own rubbish into their own process.

The Europeans also have a good retail culture of return to point of sale of packaging. Most supermarkets have bins for the packaging and bottle recycling machines to give your deposit back. Pay 11 euro for a case of Grolsch and get 3 euro back when you return the crate and bottles to the machine

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Back in the good 'ol days it was a common practice to pour used oil around fence posts and along the
fence line. It would kill the grass but it wouldn't take long and the grass would be back.
When I was a kid, our neighbour did this along the fence line for years and years but the grass would still come back.

Outback golf course fairways used to have the sand soaked in old engine oil to keep the sand free of grass and weeds....

I just read the other day, that the latest estimate for oil remaining after the Exxon Valdez accident of 1989 still has about 87 cubic meters of oil in the environment surrounding the sound. It sits below the gravel which make up the beaches amongst other nooks and crannies...

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In the states (well Arizona anyway) If you sold motor oil you were required to have a bin to collect used oil. About when I was leaving in 2008 some shops would charge a few bucks unless you had a receipt showing you bought your new oil at the same place. Makes sense to me. C'mon Australia, green up.

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That's my thoughts too