Residential Used Motor Oil & Oil Filter Recycling

Residential Used Oil Recycling and Oil Filter Exchange Program

Recycling used motor oil and oil filters is one of the easiest and most effective ways to protect our waterways and oceans from pollution. In the United States, 40% of pollution in waterways is a result of used engine oil. Not only is this oil pollution widespread, but it is also dangerous! It only takes one gallon of used oil to contaminate one million gallons of drinking water with toxic contaminants like arsenic, lead, cadmium, zinc, barium and chromium.

The good news? Used motor oil and oil filters don’t have to be thrown in the trash; they can be recycled into new and valuable products. If all used motor oil was recycled every year in the United States, it would save 1.3 million barrels of oil per day, a potentially important contribution to American fuel independence. Similarly, if all used oil filters were recycled annually in the United States, 160,000 tons of steel would be recovered. This is enough to construct 16 more Petco Park stadiums!

Since the City of Oceanside makes used oil and filter recycling easier than ever, there is no reason not to do it. The City of Oceanside is hosting Used Oil Filter Exchange Events during which Oceanside residents can bring their used oil filters and exchange them for a FREE new oil filter of their choice. Dates, times, and locations of upcoming Used Oil Filter Exchange Events are listed below:

City of Oceanside Used Oil Filter Exchange Events:

For any recycling questions please call the Oceanside Recycling Hotline at (760) 435-5015.

This program is funded by a grant from the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.