Miscellaneous Equipment

Recycling Oil Containers into Roads
A row of empty, plastic motor oil bottles collected for recycling. © Mohd Rodi / shutterstock.com

Recycling Oil Containers into Roads

April 30, 2024

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

Nynas, Stena Link to Recycle Transformer Fluid

Nynas, Stena Link to Recycle Transformer Fluid

January 9, 2024

Nynas AB has entered a partnership with waste management firm Stena Recycling to collect, process and reuse used electri ...

Vietnam Requires Lube Suppliers to Recycle

Vietnam Requires Lube Suppliers to Recycle

January 5, 2024

Vietnam this week enacted an extended producer responsibility law requiring suppliers of lubricants and other materials ...

Chile Raises Waste Oil Recycling Targets

Chile Raises Waste Oil Recycling Targets

December 20, 2023

Lubricating oil producers in Chile will need to organize programs to collect and recycle waste oil under a decree approv ...

Latvia Tightens Waste Oil Collection Regs

Latvia Tightens Waste Oil Collection Regs

October 23, 2023

Latvia’s national agency for waste management recently unveiled a campaign to improve handling of waste oil and to str ...

Calls in Russia for More Waste Oil Recycling

Calls in Russia for More Waste Oil Recycling

August 22, 2023

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

Spain Maintains Waste Lube Recycling Rate

Spain Maintains Waste Lube Recycling Rate

May 16, 2023

Spain in 2022 once again rerefined more than three-quarters of its collected used oil back into base stocks, according t ...

Japan Explores Base Oil Rerefining

Japan Explores Base Oil Rerefining

August 12, 2022

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

Coalition Aims to Boost Container Recycling

Coalition Aims to Boost Container Recycling

March 3, 2021

Three lubricant brands and two manufacturers of plastic containers announced yesterday the formation of the National Lub ...

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SK Promises Green Strategy

January 8, 2021

The parent company of SK Lubricants is looking for partners for base oil and chemical joint ventures, according to a New ...

Used Oil Collection Recovers in Italy

Used Oil Collection Recovers in Italy

November 24, 2020

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

Making a Clean Transition

Making a Clean Transition

October 1, 2020

Today’s lube manufacturers blend hundreds of different products on the same equipment, necessitating periodic flushing ...

Recovering Fishing Vessel Waste Oil

Recovering Fishing Vessel Waste Oil

August 7, 2020

A city on South Korea’s Jeju Island says a project that recovers waste lubricants generated by fishing vessels is help ...

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Need to Know

May 27, 2014

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

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On the Line in Congo

May 22, 2014

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

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Need to Know

May 21, 2014

As noted in last months column, line wash is the material used to flush the lines and pipes when lubricant blenders swit ...