attrayant Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Do gas stations take used oil for recycling? I have a few liters of soiled mineral oil that was drained from some vacuum pumps. Also have lots of spent batteries that I would prefer not to just toss into the trash can. Will hardware stores take them (and not just toss them into the trash)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Local guys collect our plastic bottles, beer bottles, batteries, old drained oil from bikes and weigh it all and give us a few baht. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotpoom Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 When I have bought a new battery they allow me some money on my old one....so I imagine, battery shops would gladly take them from you.. might even pay you some Baht for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 If you know of a scrap dealer, the ones that take plastic, cardboard etc, they will give perhaps 400bht for a big battery. I would load all your stuff up and see what they take... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunPer Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Some locals will be happy to recycle for you, as they can make little money from used oil – including your cooking oil, which is worth (for them) being collected in for example empty water bottles – used batteries, and my like things. Used cooking oil can for example be used as airplane fuel – Finnair did a test a few years ago when flying a commercial jet-plane from Helsinki to New York on used cooking oil – so if it smell of "french fried" coming from nowhere, it might have been a jet passer over your head, high up in the sky...???? "Now that's a high fryer! Finnair uses biofuel made from recycled COOKING OIL to power flight from Helsinki to New York" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inThailand Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Do in Roman like the Romans, just throw it on the ground and it will either be there for years or someone will take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 6 hours ago, inThailand said: Do in Roman like the Romans, just throw it on the ground and it will either be there for years or someone will take it. I put loads of stuff out by the bin over a period of a week. It all disappeared except polystyrene, the bin men took that....???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Warrior Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 each time I replace my car battery the garage gives me 300/5500 baht for the old one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 5 minutes ago, Road Warrior said: each time I replace my car battery the garage gives me 300/5500 baht for the old one The 5500bht one must have been huge....???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 12 minutes ago, transam said: The 5500bht one must have been huge....???? Maybe a fork truck battery regards Worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 1 minute ago, worgeordie said: Maybe a fork truck battery regards Worgeordie They have one...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbezoz Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 1 minute ago, transam said: They have one...? How do think electric fork trucks work, plugged in with a long extension lead ? ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 2 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said: How do think electric fork trucks work, plugged in with a long extension lead ? ???? Weeeeell, I had an electric fork lift, it had loads of batteries linked in series..???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbezoz Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Just now, transam said: Weeeeell, I had an electric fork lift, it had loads of batteries linked in series..???? Fact. One of my many ex Brother-in-Laws had a fork truck company in Bangkok near the airport. Around 2008 after he had been operating many years he moved to larger premises. It was rented land and his conditions of rental were to leave it as found or better. Unfortunately over the years there was a lot of leakage and/or spillage from the pile of old lead acid batteries he had accumulated. At the time I asked him how he was going to clean up the contamination. His was a simple solution. He concreted over the area and agreed with the owner that the site was left in better condition !! Bet that happens a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attrayant Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 I knew car batteries were accepted at shops that sell them. I'm more wondering about the little guys; double-A and triple-A cells. I'll try leaving the oil out on the "curb", although it's an amber color and somebody might think it's urine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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