Thoughtful

I see they make oil filter presses a guy would not think it would be worth it to crush a oil filter for that little bit of oil or maybe I missed something.

Good idea!

I'm sure one could get a government grant to start up something like that. Like Law Dog says, it does seem like a lot of work to get such a small return but when you add up the volume it may surprise you.

When I worked is shop years ago most of the cars at that time took 4 1/2 quarts of oil so between that 1/2 quart and draining of the others cans a guy had a case of oil on his bench in no time, it does add up. I have a spot in my drain pan that has a rim with a open spot in the center to drain the oil filters over time it seems to work well.

Well he's not doing it for free...so there's money in it somehow. Likely Govt subsidized...but not like it's not needed.

Around here every county has a county run recycle center. Free to residents. (well I'm sure funded through taxes). In the end the are a positive deal I think.

we used to pay to have our oil and oil filters picked up for recycling when I worked for a garage.

if they get paid to pick up oil filters as say 100 dollars a barrel and you can get 40 barrels in a truck you collect 4k for a truck load then turn around and sell the scrap at 85 dollars the ton

if they are also selling the waste oil to an asphalt maker they must get something for it. say they have a bulk tank that will hold 10K gallons and they net 500 gallons from each 13 hour run of the processor run 5 days a week and get a pick up of waste oil every time you have a full 5k gallon transport worth.

the reason for the crusher at the service station was to get more filters per barrel if you crushed them you could get 2x as many in a barrel

A good idea and a new enterprise that helps reduce waste. Don't know how much the government may be subsidizing their business but governments pay for and or subsidize land fills so why not spend some proactive monies to help recycle waste.

Bryce

On our Canadian oil change service we see the Enviroment fee right up front $ 2.86 for filter and oil recycling.
A lot of the oil is re-distilled and sold as secondary no name brands.

When they pick the barrels up the re-cycler gets about $ 350..... scrappers are steeling the filters and turning in @ $ 200T (of course they are hiding the filters in their loads)

The scrap yard here digs through every load of non-industrial scrap because of people trying to up their tonnage by filling it with rocks, wood, dirt, etc. I guess they got tired of it and now they really go through stuff.

That oil filter really makes a hot fire in the burn barrel. Burns the garbage right down.

That's good business sense there! Makes money on scrap steel. Probably makes decent money on the waste oil. When I was young I remember recycling the oil on the gravel drive to keep the dust down. We don't do that anymore!!

Best dust control ever made.

It makes a darn fine weed killer too.

I save mine for the winter and toss them into the wood stove to burn out, then recycle the steel can.