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Used oil

Businesses that generate dangerous waste must also handle used and waste oil properly. While used oil is a recyclable commodity, waste oil must be handled by a permitted treatment, storage, and disposal facility in accordance with the dangerous waste regulations.

If you are a generator, collection center, aggregator, transporter, transfer facility, processor, off-specification burner, or marketer, use the information below to help you handle your used and waste oil correctly.

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  • Used oil generator: Business or facility that causes oil to become used or waste oil.
  • Used oil collection center: Site or facility registered (or permitted) by local government to accept and collect used oil from used oil generators.
  • Used oil aggregator or aggregation point: Site or facility that collects used oil from other sites or facilities owned by the same oil generator.
 Used Oil Guide: Generators, Collection Centers, and Aggregation Points
  • Used oil transporter or transfer facility: 1) Business that collects and transports used oil from generators, or 2) a generator that transports used oil somewhere other than a collection center or aggregator or transports more than 55 gallons, or 3) the owner or operator of a used oil transfer facility.
  • Used oil processor: Business that produces a used oil fuel.
  • Used oil re-refiner: Business that processes used oil to produce "new" oil.
  • Off-specification used oil burner: Facility that burns off-specification used oil for energy recovery in an industrial furnace, industrial boiler, or a utility boiler.
  • Fuel marketer: 1) First person to claim used oil that meets on-specification limits, or 2) directs the shipment of off-specification used oil directly to a burner.
 Used Oil Guide: Transporters, Transfer Facilities, Processors, Re-refiners, Used Oil Burners, and Fuel Marketers

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