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)?

Local guys collect our plastic bottles, beer bottles, batteries, old drained oil from bikes and weigh it all and give us a few baht.

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.

Edited May 9, 20197 yr by dotpoom

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...

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"

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. 

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....????

each time I replace my car battery the garage gives me 300/5500 baht for the old one

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....????

12 minutes ago, transam said:

The 5500bht one must have been huge....????

Maybe a fork truck battery

regards Worgeordie

1 minute ago, worgeordie said:

Maybe a fork truck battery

regards Worgeordie

They have one...?

1 minute ago, transam said:

They have one...?

How do think electric fork trucks work, plugged in with a long extension lead ? ????

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..????

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.

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.