Residents may take their used-but-clean motor oil (no other automotive fluids) to the locations listed below. (If the oil is contaminated with antifreeze or water or anything, take it to the District’s household hazardous waste depot.) Please follow the requirements listed here, and call first to be sure they have room:
- Spurr’s Repair in Perkinsville, 802-263-5459
- Advance Auto Parts in Springfield, 802-546-2558
- Matulonis Body Shop in Springfield, 802-885-5000
- Tony’s Used Autos, North Hartland, 802-295-2215
- Adams Trucking and Excavating, Westminster, 802-463-2213
- Wal-Mart and Auto Zone
Requirements:
- The oil must be “clean” (No water, No antifreeze, No other fluids mixed with it).
- Typically, no more than 5 gallons at a time.
- One-gallon container maximum size.
- Container must be see-through—like milk jugs or windshield fluid.
Some of these businesses use the oil to heat their buildings; if the oil is not clean, it will ruin their oil burners.
PLEASE NOTE: When used oil is dumped on the ground or poured down the drain, it becomes a serious pollutant of our ground and surface waters. Remember, if you dump it, you drink it!