Makes sense. I would think a lot of people would use waste oil for heating. In the generator service business I used to be in we had an oil furnace in the shop that was designed to burn waste motor oil, and our annual collection of waste oil was often enough to get us through the winter for a fuel source. I think the shop was 60' x 100’ with a 30’ ceiling and was pretty much an open space.
-D > On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:11 AM, Clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > There are no facilities able to bother with waste oil from what I can tell. > There should be somebody who should, but the land area is too great and > producers so spread out, there just ain’t a way to do it profitably. > > I took an old folks class last fall, and we did tours of waste > processing/recycling facilities. For something like vehicle fluids, the > stuff would need to be gathered, then would end up in 55 gallon barrels and > shipped back down to Tacoma, WA. Too expensive to send glass down south, so > it either just goes in the trash and landfill, or the really eco friendly > will self sort and take it to a processing center where the glass ends up > hauled to a place that will crush it and use it for bedding sewer pipes. > Fluids would be worse. > > It would not surprise me if some of the repair/service places will have it > used in waste oil burners for shop heating. I expect it is more likely to > just get put in empty jugs and tossed in the garbage. From the large oil > spots leaving a trail behind last weeks garbage truck, somebody got rid of a > few gallons that way. > > There is a landfill that is supposed to have only garbage left, and a person > would be able to segregate his toxic waste from normal waste. There is a > garbage Co-gen facility that provides around 35% of the power for JBER. > Pretty sure oil ends up there as fuel. > > All the machinery/snow machines/dead cars/scrap in Alaska usually ends up > just where it died. Fluids and all. Too expensive to actually deal with it. > Maybe at some far future it will be reprocessed tectonically and mined by > aliens. > > > > clay > > I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. > > > >> On Apr 15, 2020, at 9:38 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> I just got a promotional email from Auto Zone about the things they’re doing >> to assist customers and continue business operations, one of which is >> accepting waste oil. Something that sort of jumped out at me in the fine >> print was a statement that they don’t recycle oil in Alaska. >> >> Any idea why, Clay? >> >> -D >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
