• Create an oil slick on surface water up to eight acres in size  
• Contaminate one million gallons of freshwater. That is a year’s supply of water for 50 people! 
• Render a four-acre area of soil unusable for planting for decades

Used motor oil can be recycled into a product that is as good as new oil. It is cleaned, filtered and given new additives. Look for recycled oil at your service station.

Information about recycling used oil, along with a search mechanism for depots: http://search.earth911.com/american-petroleum-institute.php

More on recycling motor oil at: http://www.ehow.com/how_9165_recycle-motor-oil.html

Retailers who sell motor oil must either accept used oil or provide a collection depot within 5 kilometers of their business. Deliver your used oil to your nearest oil retailer for reprocessing.

Oil Filters ARE recyclable also; return them to point of purchase if possible.

Call Snohomish County Solid Waste at 425-388-3425 for information on our sites to recycle oil, oil filters, and antifreeze, or see here for more: https://snohomishcountywa.gov/207/Solid-Waste