Oil giant ExxonMobil will fork out U.S.$200 million on expanding recycling operations at its Beaumont and Baytown refineries in Texas. The company ...

A ground-up mixture of drained plastic motor oil canisters can be used as a construction additive in road pavement materials typically made of bitumen ...

Nynas AB has entered a partnership with waste management firm Stena Recycling to collect, process and reuse used electrical transformer fluid. Under t ...

Vietnam this week enacted an extended producer responsibility law requiring suppliers of lubricants and other materials to take steps to recycle them. ...

Lubricating oil producers in Chile will need to organize programs to collect and recycle waste oil under a decree approved last month by the country� ...

Latvia’s national agency for waste management recently unveiled a campaign to improve handling of waste oil and to strengthen regulation of its coll ...

Approximately 500,000 metric tons of waste lubricants are collected in Russia each year, but the vast majority is reused as fuel, according to governm ...

Spain in 2022 once again rerefined more than three-quarters of its collected used oil back into base stocks, according to the non-profit organization ...

In an effort to reduce reliance on virgin base oils and to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, the Japanese government has commissioned the Japan Lu ...

Three lubricant brands and two manufacturers of plastic containers announced yesterday the formation of the National Lubricant Container Recycling Coa ...

The parent company of SK Lubricants is looking for partners for base oil and chemical joint ventures, according to a New Year’s address by its CEO. ...

Used oil collection in Italy nearly recovered to pre-pandemic levels during the three months ended in August, according to the National Consortium for ...

Today’s lube manufacturers blend hundreds of different products on the same equipment, necessitating periodic flushing to prevent cross-contaminatio ...

A city on South Korea’s Jeju Island says a project that recovers waste lubricants generated by fishing vessels is helping to protect the local marin ...

Arguments about who is responsible for lube-plant line wash finding its way into applications where it causes harm often echo the oversimplified logic ...

A one-time Quaker State plant in Newell, W.Va., now part of Shell, depends on both robots and its savvy human workforce to get the work done.

As noted in last months column, line wash is the material used to flush the lines and pipes when lubricant blenders switch production from one type of ...