• Take no more than 5 gallons of used motor oil at a time. The oil must be free of contamination from other automotive fluids, dirt or water. Put the oil in a plastic container with a tight seal. Put used oil filters in a plastic zip-lock bag.

• Used oil can contain contaminants such as lead, magnesium, copper, zinc, chromium, arsenic, cadmium and chlorinated compounds.
• Don't pour used motor oil down the drain or on the ground. One gallon of used motor oil can pollute one million gallons of drinking water.
• Used motor oil represents more than 40 percent of the oil pollution in our country's waterways.
• Used oil is easy to recycle. It can be re-refined into motor oil.
• Recycle your used oil filter. Even after draining, used oil filters contain about 10 ounces of used oil, as well as one pound of reusable steel.
• All the used oil filters sold annually in California could be recycled into 67 million pounds of steel, enough to build three large football stadiums!

Recycling used oil and filters reduces our dependence on foreign oil, saves valuable resources, protects the health of our families, and is the only legal way to dispose of them! You haven't finished changing your oil until you've taken this last important step.