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Antifreeze & Motor Oil
ANTIFREEZE
Antifreeze is extremely toxic to equatic life and other animals. Many animals like the taste of antifreeze and will readily consume it when given the opportunity. However, antifreeze, even in small amounts, can have a very harmful and often fatal effect on pets. As many as 88% of animal encounters with the toxin will end in fatality.
There is now a less toxic alternative to the ethylene glycol-based antifreeze that is most commonly used. The new anti freeze is propylene glycol-based. It has anti corrosive properties, is biodegradable, and is recyclable.
When adding any antifreeze to your vehicle, it is important that you take extra care in doing so and mop up any spills, it is also important to check you're your vehicle for leaking fluids.
MOTOR OIL
The amount of oil in one oil change can ruin a day's water supply for a small city. Or put in another way, just one quart of oil will ruin the taste of 250,000 gallons of water. Approximately 47.8 million gallons of motor oil are sold in Texas each year. Do-it-yourselfers who change their own automotive oil account for nearly half of these sales. It is estimated that over 60% of do-it-yourselfers improperly dispose of their used oil in sewers, onto the ground, or into household trash. The rest is recycled through reprocessing, re-refining or burning for energy recovery.
Recycling used oil can conserve our nation's natural resources, protect the environment and save consumers money. However when oil is disposed of improperly, it can contaminate the soil, and surface and ground waters.
Texas law prohibits dumping used oil or antifreeze on land or into sewers or waterways. This includes the use of used oil as a dust suppressant.