What To Do With Old Oil Filter

Waste product oil and oil filters are an unavoidable office of the process for mechanics and auto workshops but all that used oil doesn't need to go to waste. The waste product oil we collect is recycled and re-refined to create high quality fuel oil and base oils, finer closing the loop on oil usage.

A challenging component of waste material oil recovery is residual waste left on equipment parts like oil filters. Automotive workshops build up large amounts of used oil filters each year, each of them filled with highly recoverable used engine oil and contaminated materials like sludge.

Previously, it was about impossible to remove the residual oil left in a used oil filter. Typically, the filter would be crushed and the oil lost. With our technologically-advanced machines, Cleanaway can provide a cleaner, more serviceable metal recyclable product by extracting up to 95% of the rest oil that is absorbed in the oil filter paper.

How nosotros recover make clean metals and used oil for recycling

Cleanaway has a defended division called Cleanaway Equipment Services (CES) which provides all workshop waste services, including the collection and recycling of used oil filters.

In WA lone, we collect upwards of 150 tonnes of waste oil filters per year from workshops throughout the metropolitan and regional centres. These are nerveless in defended storage bins supplied by Cleanaway for source separation and adjacent stage recycling.

The used oil filters are candy at Cleanaway'due south Bentley facility past a purpose-built filter printing machine. This enables us to provide a cleaner, more usable metallic recyclable production. No part of the oil filter goes to landfill.

The filter press motorcar conveys the used oil filters along a sorting line to remove contaminants earlier existence fed to a press that forces the waste material oil out for separate collection and processing. The now-empty used filter metal blocks are and then compacted and cleaned past Cleanaway'southward turbowasher machines to ensure they meet recycling standards, before being sent to recyclers to be reprocessed into side by side life products such as storage tins and household appliances.

Waste oil captured from this process is consolidated and transported to Cleanaway's ain waste oil refineries for processing and recycling. The recovered oil tin be used every bit an alternative to virgin fuels for energy generation such equally hot firm boilers and mining operations.

From optically sorting commingled recycling in our land-of-the-art Cloth Recovery Facilities to turning construction and demolition, and dry commercial and industrial waste into procedure-engineered fuel at our Cleanaway ResourceCo plant, Cleanaway is committed to our Footprint 2025 roadmap – investing in Australia's infrastructure to support communities to manage their waste and amend resource recovery.

Cleanaway is the largest waste oil collector in the state – nosotros collect used oil from over 35,000 workshops and businesses effectually Australia and procedure over 150 one thousand thousand litres each year. Contact us today to learn how you can turn your waste oil into new base oil and fuel oil products.