New hazmat rules

[Greg Reimer 7376]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Posted by someone on the 90s section:

Got to bradenton and if you changed your trans or motor oil, you had to take it with you when you left the track.no oil barrels. Got to gainesville and if you change oil you have to pay a hazmat team to remove it from the track. You are not allowed to remove any oil or filters from the track in your trailers unless you have the proper equipment.hazmat must be owned by who ?

Put your seatbelts on,it's going to be a rough ride.

At work, the City of Los Angeles fleet repair shop, we've been cautioned never to use spray brake clean where it goes into waste oil catch containers.Seems the chlorinated residue will contaminate the waste oil and the recycler that picks it up has a problem transporting and disposing of it.We still use it,not the aerosol spray,but the type that comes in a sealed gallon plastic jug and it goes into a spray can that has a Schraeder valve on it where it is charged with compressed air as a propellant. That seems to be the green way to go, as it would have fallen on us first if there was an environmental concern.We have to collect all spent aerosol cans for proper disposal by a vendor,as we do used coolant, oil,trans fluid, and even dirty shop rags. I'm glad that I don't own a shop,the cost of all this hazmat disposal must be a substantial percentage of a business' overhead.I'm all for eliminating pollution, hazard spills,etc. but when you can't even do your job,it's out of hand.I will be the first to say,having lived here for 51 of my 55 years, we don't even HAVE smog compared to what we had as a kid 40-50 years ago. Those big mountains behind the Pomona starting line wouldn't have been even visible at all then.We were out in Malibu having lunch a month or so ago, and could see Mount San Gorgonio out by Palm Springs. a distance of 150 miles, and it was pretty much a usual day. Fuel injection and better engine management systems have cleaned the air in L.A. more than all the little protesting green weenies out there.Now, if the al gores of the world would just sit in the corner and play with their little prius, and get out of the way, technology and industry could REALLY advance!!!