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Overall, globally, one of the most serious pollutants after nuclear waste is used engine oil!
Overall, globally, one of the most serious pollutants after nuclear waste is used engine oil! The figures are striking...a typical small city in the UK such as Canterbury produces 3.5 million litres of used engine oil per year. Of this, 2.6 million litres is collected to be disposed of in various ways, but 900,000 litres is completely unaccounted for! This finds its way back into the environment, where one litre of oil can contaminate 1,000,000 litres of water.
Waste oil contains all sorts of potentially hazardous chemicals, such as PAH, or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, a combustion by product, heavy metals including zinc, barium, chromium engine wear metals, residual oil additive breakdown products, degraded base oil chemicals.
Legitimate uses of waste oil
- Waste oil can be re-refined to become a lubricant, this process is comparatively environmentally friendly, though the logistics seem to make the resulting oil more expensive than fresh oil from a refinery
- It takes only a comparatively small volume of used oil to make a litre of useable 'new' oil, compared to the quantity of crude oil used to produce the same amount so it is a good idea to recycle waste oil in this way.
- Used oil can be processed to produce a fuel oil which is reasonably clean...by removing most of the pollutants. This oil is then sold as fuel oil to end users.
Other uses of waste oil
Unfortunately, a majority of waste oil in many parts of the world, even if it's been recycled in good faith, is simply sold untreated by unscrupulous enterprises as a fuel oil to industry. This use is recognised as being very hazardous, as the toxins and metal particles are released as the oil is burned, to pollute the air and water.
Used engine oil contains quantities of elements such as iron, chromium, lead, copper, tin, aluminium, nickel, silver, manganese, silicon, boron, sodium, magnesium, calcium, barium, phosphorous, zinc, molybdenum, titanium, vanadium and cadmium.
It is widely recognised that the best way to deal with used engine oil is to reduce the problem by reducing the amount of used oil we create! One simple way to do this easily, is to reduce the frequency of oil changes.
Help save the environment - use less oil
This idea has been vigorously resisted by the big oil companies, with the honourable exception of AMSOIL, the American company which introduced fully synthetic motor oil on the open market in 1972.
Amsoil have always claimed very much longer oil change periods for their product, currently they produce two oils for which the recommended oil changes are 25,000 miles or once yearly (which ever comes first,) and 35,000 miles or once yearly.
This means, for an average car, 5 litres of oil being recycled every 35,000 miles. Compare this with the quantity produced under the old system, where oil changes were required according to the manufacturers, every 3000 to 10,000 miles!!!
If the oil was changed every 3000 miles that's 11 changes, or 55 litres used in the same period!
The general adoption of a bypass oil filtration system would have truly enormous effect on the environment in terms of reducing the burden of this very damaging waste on water supplies, and on plant and animal species with which it comes into contact.
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