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Most of the kids at Crappy Tire don't want to bother handling it so they just tell you no. Might have to ask the service manager
 
CT usually has area by the car service bay doors to leave it. No talking to anyone. Just leave it where other cans are.
 
Any Costco with a tire shop that does oil changes will take your old oil, no questions asked and no fees.
Same with your old tires, bike or car and batteries. Also expired propane tanks if it has a propane filling station.
If you are shy, you can leave it after hours. No one will hunt you down. Place it by one of the service bays.
 
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DemonPig said:
Any Costco with a tire shop that does oil changes will take your old oil, no questions asked and no fees.
Same with your old tires, bike or car and batteries. Also expired propane tanks if it has a propane filling station.
If you are shy, you can leave it after hours. No one will hunt you down. Place it by one of the service bays.
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Did you say bike tires?? Awesome!!
I'm shy at long lineups at the waste depot

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Yeah man, motorcycle tires too. And if anyone ever gives you trouble dropping off tires at Costco, PM me which one and the name of the person that refused you.

Tires - any Costco
Batteries - any Costco
Oil - only Costcos that do oil changes (majority of them)
Propane tanks - only Costcos with propane filling station (some of them)

People don't realize that retailers get paid now for used tire pickup (it's pennies but nevertheless - there's no cost involved, only some storage space)
 
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DemonPig said:
Yeah man, motorcycle tires too. And if anyone ever gives you trouble dropping off tires at Costco, PM me which one and the name of the person that refused you.

Tires - any Costco
Batteries - any Costco
Oil - only Costcos that do oil changes (majority of them)
Propane tanks - only Costcos with propane filling station (some of them)

People don't realize that retailers get paid now for used tire pickup (it's pennies but nevertheless - there's no cost involved, only some storage space)
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I'd keep that in mind, thanks

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I keep a 5 gal pail and when that's full I will take it to my local city run drop off site. Saves going every few months
 
infernobuster said:
No they dont.

They will ask you 2 things, is it in the original container? And did you buy it from this store?

Failure of any of those, and you will pay the disposal fee (again) which is ********. For the CT store that failed to take mine, i left them 16 litres as a gift overnight.
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Middle of the night works well... around the back.
 
I can remember as a teenager taking an old watering can and dipping it in the warm oil and then spreading the whole mess on the gravel driveway to keep the dust down. You young whipper-snappers didn't invent recycling, us old farts did. I bet there are a few others that have done this before. Can you just imagine trying to get away with that crap now?
 
bobbyh said:
I can remember as a teenager taking an old watering can and dipping it in the warm oil and then spreading the whole mess on the gravel driveway to keep the dust down. You young whipper-snappers didn't invent recycling, us old farts did. I bet there are a few others that have done this before. Can you just imagine trying to get away with that crap now?
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I remember, but then we have since realized that one liter of oil can contaminate 300,000 liters of ground water. OOPS!
Do you remember the trucks that used to drive around fogging the neighbourhoods to keep the mosquitoes down? We used to follow along on our bikes and the game was to see how long you could stay in the fog... you know that cloud of DDT the truck was spraying.
Do you remember they use to make roads by spraying tar then layers of pea gravel? We'd go out and re-tread the bottoms of our bare feet with tar and gravel. Mom loved that one.

Ah yes, the good old days. I often wonder how we survived.
... and back then we didn't recycle for the environment, we reused stuff 'cuz we were cheap!
 
Hey bitzz,my cheeks hurt from laughing at the site of you guys following the fogger. Of course the driveway could only handle so much oil. So the old man had a hate on for a dirty old willow tree on the property next door. I would say we probably dumped a thousand gallons of oil around that tree over 10 years. After 30 years that tree still looks as strong as ever.
 
a little known fact, most autoshops that have a decent volume of oil changes are actually paid by suppliers for old oil. my friend owns a shop up by the west side of pearson, he gets paid 17 cents a litre for old oil. its funny how crappy tire charges a disposal fee....double dipping
 
infernobuster said:
No they dont.

They will ask you 2 things, is it in the original container? And did you buy it from this store?

Failure of any of those, and you will pay the disposal fee (again) which is ********. For the CT store that failed to take mine, i left them 16 litres as a gift overnight.
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They must not like you. I dropped off like 10 bottles of oil once, all in different containers (juice, laundry detergent, few oil bottles, whatever I had around the house) and 2 garbage bags full of filters and dirty rags. They said it was fine.
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