can ATF be mixed with oil for disposal?

[dc]

Can I mix ATF with the oil when I bring it into Autozone?

[Yip Yu]

I'm sure you could. In San Francisco, CA, We're told we can mix motor
oil, tranny fluid, gear oil, power steering fluids.

Things that must be turned in separately (cannot mix with used oil) are:
antifreeze, solvents (including motor flush, etc.), brake fluid, paint,
detergents/soaps. Was told these contaminate the oil and making it
non-recyclable.

Yip

[Charles]

No!

Charles

[Charles]

Maybe it OK in your area. But when I brought some ATF to my local
Autozone, I was told they don't recycle ATF.

Charles

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Yip Yu wrote:

> I'm sure you could. In San Francisco, CA, We're told we can mix motor
> oil, tranny fluid, gear oil, power steering fluids.
>
> Things that must be turned in separately (cannot mix with used oil) are:
> antifreeze, solvents (including motor flush, etc.), brake fluid, paint,
> detergents/soaps. Was told these contaminate the oil and making it
> non-recyclable.
>
> Yip
>
>

[Jim Walker]

In our area we keep trans fluid separate. My area is Fairfax County,
Va.

dc wrote:

> Can I mix ATF with the oil when I bring it into Autozone?

--

Jim Walker

Northern Virginia

[dc]

>
> Things that must be turned in separately (cannot mix with used oil) are:
> antifreeze, solvents (including motor flush, etc.), brake fluid, paint,
> detergents/soaps. Was told these contaminate the oil and making it
> non-recyclable.

oops, I mixed some brake fluid in with my oil. Now what do I do with it?

Don't they just burn it for energy anyway? Autozone told me some people
mixed anti-freeze with their oil, but they still took it in.

[dc]

well, what is ATF anyway? isn't it oil?

Charles wrote:

> Maybe it OK in your area. But when I brought some ATF to my local
> Autozone, I was told they don't recycle ATF.
>
> Charles
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Yip Yu wrote:
>
> > I'm sure you could. In San Francisco, CA, We're told we can mix motor
> > oil, tranny fluid, gear oil, power steering fluids.
> >

> > Things that must be turned in separately (cannot mix with used oil) are:
> > antifreeze, solvents (including motor flush, etc.), brake fluid, paint,
> > detergents/soaps. Was told these contaminate the oil and making it
> > non-recyclable.
> >

> > Yip

[Dale Greep]

You can probably "get away with it" but the reason that some recycles don't
take atf is that there is some degree of contamination from the friction
materials suspended in the fluid. These materials often include asbestos on
older vehicles. Asbestos contaminated petroleum products are classified as
hazardous waste.
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I used to work for AutoZone and I can tell you in not one instance did
I see them turn anyone away. They take the containers and dump them
in a big blue cube. An approved above ground secondary containment
storage tank. Most of the time they dont even look at it. If in
doubt tell them u dont want the container back and leave.

>Maybe it OK in your area. But when I brought some ATF to my local
>Autozone, I was told they don't recycle ATF.
>
>
>Charles
>
>On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Yip Yu wrote:
>
>> I'm sure you could. In San Francisco, CA, We're told we can mix motor
>> oil, tranny fluid, gear oil, power steering fluids.
>>
>> Things that must be turned in separately (cannot mix with used oil) are:
>> antifreeze, solvents (including motor flush, etc.), brake fluid, paint,
>> detergents/soaps. Was told these contaminate the oil and making it
>> non-recyclable.
>>
>> Yip
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, dc wrote:
>>

[Charles]

Believe it or not. That was my personal experience with autozone. Sometime
they took down my name and phone number and how many quarts of engine oil
I brought in. Sometime they just took the oil and said nothing.

Charles