Boxes of oil?

[The Bogan]

1 hour ago, Duncan said:

Good news, we now know why this is a giant leap forward for the environment

"The box takes up less space in landfill than traditional packaging".

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHW77Eit_p6/

Thank f**k, humanity is saved.

So, not only do you have a plastic bag to recycle, like the old plastic bottles that were full of old oil that we took to get recycled, we now also have a cardboard box....for bonus recycling points, well, apart from the additional trees and the manufacturing requirements used to make the boxes

Oh, and now nowhere to put your old oil in and take to get recycled 

Seems environmentally legit, and super helpful for people who change their own oil

Who comes up with these brilliant ideas

 

 

[MBS206]

4 hours ago, The Bogan said:

So, not only do you have a plastic bag to recycle, like the old plastic bottles that were full of old oil that we took to get recycled, we now also have a cardboard box....for bonus recycling points, well, apart from the additional trees and the manufacturing requirements used to make the boxes

Oh, and now nowhere to put your old oil in and take to get recycled 

Seems environmentally legit, and super helpful for people who change their own oil

Who comes up with these brilliant ideas

 

 

Probably why it's more on their trade site. I didn't check if it was on the normal site.

At least trade/mechanics will have an oil disposal point.

[joshuaho96]

20 hours ago, The Bogan said:

So, not only do you have a plastic bag to recycle, like the old plastic bottles that were full of old oil that we took to get recycled, we now also have a cardboard box....for bonus recycling points, well, apart from the additional trees and the manufacturing requirements used to make the boxes

Oh, and now nowhere to put your old oil in and take to get recycled 

Seems environmentally legit, and super helpful for people who change their own oil

Who comes up with these brilliant ideas

 

 

The dirty secret is there is nothing recyclable about the plastic bag or old plastic bottles either. Our local trash collection explicitly calls it out as hazmat in both cases. Oil-soaked rags + paper towels too. Oil-soaked cardboard is also not recyclable. The most common case of oil-soaked paper like that is pizza boxes, which are explicitly compost-only from the oil.

To my knowledge hazmat oil contaminated plastic the only solution is either landfill or "thermal recycling". Most plastics in my experience there is slow permeation of the oil it's holding into the container so it's very challenging to get it 100% clean.

[niZmO_Man]

Everything has to go into the ground to return to the molten layer below us eventually.