What Happens to Oil After an Oil Change?
Your vehicle's engine requires regular oil change every 3 months or up to a 5,000 mile maximum. The process of proper car maintenance puts a large amount of old, motor oil into the environment. This makes it useful to have proper disposal available in order to turn all of that old oil into alternative lubricant and heating energy sources.
An oil change is one of the most important aspects of preventative auto maintenance. It is highly recommended that you regularly perform an oil change in your vehicle every 3 months or 3,000 up to 5,000 miles each and every year you own the vehicle. On one hand,
two out of four motor oil exchanges throughout the year will likely be devoted to taking your vehicle into a trusted mechanic at your local garage. While there your car can receive a 21 point, thorough inspection that will keep you ahead of any leaks or repairs that require professional attention. If you keep up with all of that car maintenance annually, your vehicle should stay in good shape throughout its life and use.
On the other hand, when it comes down to the other two times of the year for an oil change, you can actually perform this restorative maintenance at your home. For these home car care activities, it is a good idea to do this interchangeably with professional garage assistance and tune ups. During these times you would simply place a drip pan underneath your vehicle, open the plug, and allow it several minutes to fully drain, replace the plug and then replace the amount of quarts required for your engine. So what will happen with the motor oil that you have removed from your engine? Well, prober environmentally responsible disposal is the only choice. You'd begin this process by either draining your old motor oil into one or two portable containers or into a drip pan with a pouring spout or corners for easy pouring later. You will then take these containers to the auto supply store from which you usually purchase your motor oil so that you can turn it in for proper recycling disposal.
The objective after performing an at home oil change is to make sure that the old sludge is not going down the drains or into the grass to contaminate future water supply or affect wildlife or plant life. So instead, it is turned in to your local auto supply and then relinquished to a processing facility for recycling to be used in a new product. Some of the products that can be fashioned from the processed motor oil from an oil change are lubricants and oils for heating systems. So as long as it is disposed of properly it can have a new life to provide further alternative uses over its life.
