Private individual

YOU ARE A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL
Go to a municipal recycling facility

Discard your full oil-change cans in a municipal recycling facility. By doing so, you are ensuring that this hazardous waste is collected in a safe way and suitably treated to give it a second lease of life. Your oil-change oil will enter the circular economy and, following treatment, will become a new oil again. It can also be recovered as energy.

FIND A MUNICIPAL RECYCLING FACILITY (MRF)

Many MFRs have oil-change oil collection banks. Here you can find the nearest one to you.

This list is non-exhaustive but is aiming to become so! We will update it regularly, as and when local authorities join Cyclevia.

YOUR OIL-CHANGE OIL IS A HAZARD FOR YOU AND YOUR ISLAND!

IF IT COMES IN CONTACT WITH YOUR SKIN,

it may be carcinogenic

IF IT SPREADS INTO THE ENVIRONMENT
it pollutes soil, aquifers, seawater and rivers

of waste oil spreads to cover an area of 1,000 m2 of water

1litre

WHAT DOES LEGISLATION SAY?

Discharging oil-change oil into the natural environment is prohibited (article R211-60 of the French Environment Code).

FOLLOW BEST PRACTICE!

Use leak-proof and closed containers to temporarily store oil-change oil and take it to a municipal recycling facility.

Use nitrile or latex gloves during handling.

COOLANT

FRYING OIL

DO NOT MIX YOUR OIL-CHANGE OIL WITH OTHER WASTE SUCH AS:

FUEL

BRAKE FLUID

SOLVENTS

FOLLOW SORTING INTRUCTIONS!

Driven by local authorities, and in order to help you to better sort your waste, instructions are gradually being defined and applied by lubricant manufacturers on their products’ packaging: this is the “Info-tri” sorting label!Watch out for the symbol! Oil-change oil and cans having contained new or waste oil should be discarded in a municipal recycling facility. Under no circumstance whatsoever must they end up in a bin for packaging or in the sewers!

WHAT HAPPENS

TO YOUR OIL-CHANGE OIL?

Any oil-change oil that you deposit in the collection banks will be given a second lease of life. Your oil-change oil will enter the circular economy and, following treatment, will become a new oil again. It will also be recovered as energy to supply power to cement kilns, heat or electricity power stations.