Shock Disposal (1 Viewer)

[camino70]

I replaced the shocks in our 2004 awhile ago and the old shocks have been sitting in my garage.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on the proper way to dispose of them?

Drill a hole and drain the oil? Recycle the remains?

 

[DirtDawg]

I just throw them in the trash..

 

[camino70]

I know I'm a walking contradiction, with multiple 100's. I sat on coolant in the garage for months until I found a place that recycled, more than one place around Atlanta told me to pour it down the drain.

If I can get the shocks recycled, I'd feel better for at least one fill up.

 

[DirtDawg]

If it makes you sleep better at night: http://www.monroe.com/downloads/install-instructions-guides/Disposal_Oil.pdf

 

[abuck99]

You can drill them and recycle but thats more effort than its worth.

Coolant: Here in Dekalb County- they say pour used coolant down the toilet. That just doesn't sound right- (at least it should go down chipmunk holes......) but I take my used coolant to a friends shop and dump it in their coolant recycle tank.

 

[Rolocado]

Take em to a metal recycler after you drain them. Don't pour it down the drain

 

[sammybones]

I like to take coolant to feral cat colonies. They seem to really enjoy it.

 

[bentonrover]

I'll just keep my mouth shut so the environmentalists won't burn my house down. Then again they would probably not lol

 

[Spike555]

I used to haul HAZMAT for a recycler.
Drain the shock oil into a waste motor oil container and recycle it with that, then take the shocks to a metal recycler. You won't get paid but you're doing the right thing.
As for the coolant, dumping it down the sanitary sewer it gets "eaten" by the microbes in the poop factory.
You can take your waste coolant to a quick lube, they will dump it in with their waste oil and it'll get recycled.

If you do it right you can also dump it in with your waste oil, the auto parts store just can't know it's in there, they get paid for their waste oil and if it has to much water in it they get less money. The more "pure" the waste oil the more it pays.
Power steering fluid, gear oil, ATF...all of that gets recycled at the same place.