Recycle Used Motor If you live in Ceres AND have curbside recycling, place oil and filter at curbside Oil & Filters near your blue recycling toter on your collection day. For the bi-weekly collection Each year, millions of gallons of used schedule, check out the city’s website at oil are illegally poured down drains www.ci.ceres.ca.us. USED OIL FACTS and sewers or disposed of in the trash, harming our environment. Recycling used 2 oil and filters helps eliminate pollution of One gallon of used oil can our soil, waterways and drinking water. pollute one million gallons of fresh water! Here’s how to properly recycle used oil and filters: POUR used motor oil into Just one pint of oil can produce container using a funnel to a slick on the ocean’s surface avoid spills. the size of a football field!
You may use the containers your oil 4 Used motor oil can contain toxic came in, or a clean reusable plastic RECYCLE substances such as benzene, container with a screw-on lid. lead, zinc, and cadmium. Be sure to use a drop cloth, and use rags to wipe up spills. If you live in an apartment without Before it is drained, an oil filter For big spills, soak up with an curbside pickup, you can take your can contain one pint to one absorbent such as kitty litter and then used oil and filter to the Stanislaus quart of used oil. 1 FILTER dispose in trash. County Household Hazardous Waste DO NOT MIX used motor oil with any Collection Facility: Used oil filters are recyclable other automotive fluids, such as anti- because they’re made of steel. freeze or brake fluid. Contaminated oil 1710 Morgan Rd. Open Fridays and After changing your motor oil, cannot be recycled. Saturdays, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. except DRAIN oil filter into a drain Filters can be recycled into DO NOT hose down your work area. major holidays. Call (209) 525-6789 for pan or container for at least new steel products, such as SCREW LID on more information. cans, cars, and appliances, and 24 hours. TIGHTLY. Wipe up For the locations of other used oil and construction materials such as any oil on outsidede filter collection centers in Ceres, call rebar and beams. of container. 1-800-CLEANUP or visit Place oil filter www.RecycleUsedOil.com in a reclosable plastic bag. YOU DUMP IT, YOU DRINK IT!