Did you know...old motor oil can be used to fertilize your lawn?

Would that be a good thing or bad if someone acutally did itDid you know...old motor oil can be used to fertilize your lawn?
no I didn't know that actually we are not allow to pour it on the ground because:





Used motor oil is recyclable. Although it gets extremely dirty, it will never wear out. The used motor oil that is taken in to a recycler may be re-refined and made into lubricating oils that meet all the same specifications of non-recycled motor oil. It may


get processed and burned in special furnaces for heat, or used in power plants to generate electricity for our homes, schools, businesses and industries.





Putting used motor oil in the trash or dumping it out on the ground is not an option today. (((Used motor oil disposed of improperly can be very dangerous to the environment because it can contain benzene, lead, arsenic, zinc and cadmium.))))





Recycling used motor oil helps protect the environment and save energy because:


One gallon of used motor oil can contaminate 1 million gallons of fresh water - a year's supply of water for 50 people.


It only takes one pint of used motor oil to put an oil sheen on a one acre pond.


The amount of used motor oil disposed of improperly by Do-it-yourselfer auto mechanics every eighteen (18) days is approximately 11 million gallons.


One gallon of used motor oil that is re-refined will produce 2.5 quarts of lubricating oil, but it takes 42 gallons of crude oil to produce the same 2.5 quarts of lubricating oil.


Re-refining used motor oil takes only one-third the energy of refining crude oil to lubricant quality.


Americans who change their own motor oil throw away 180 million gallons of recoverable motor oil every year, while only 20 million gallons are recycled.


If the 180 million gallons of used motor oil that is disposed of improperly by Do-it-yourselfers each year were recycled, it could produce enough energy to power 360,000 homes each year or could provide 96 million quarts of high-grade motor oil.


The United States generates a total of 1.3 billion gallons of waste oil each year of which 800 million gallons are recycled and 500 million are disposed of improperly.


If we re-refined the 1.3 billion gallons of waste oil generated in the United States each year, we would save 1.3 million barrels of oil per day, or half the daily output of the Alaska pipeline.


Nearly 40% of the pollution in America's waterways is from used motor oil.


Used motor oil often contains toxic metals such as benzene, lead, arsenic, zinc and cadmium, which can seep into water tables if dumped on the ground.





The failure to recycle used motor oil in the United States represents not only an environmental and human health hazard, but a missed opportunity to reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil.Did you know...old motor oil can be used to fertilize your lawn?
Bad I'm afraid.





There are some nasty contaminants in the old oil with some serious health concerns. The oil might have come from a faulty engine, allowing cooling water to get in there (anti-freeze), or from an old engine that used leaded gas.





Generally it would need the oil to be thoroughly cleansed to meet environmental standards and that would sadly probably use more energy than it's saving, especially with the collection of the old oil to be considered.





I am a little puzzled as to how old oil might be used to make fertilizer thought, since oil is mainly carbon and hydrogen atoms, while fertilizers are mainly nitrogen and oxygen.





At the moment, many garages get around the problem of disposing of old oil by burning it instead of fuel oil to keep the garage warm.
yeah, and it tastes mighty good on salads too!