The City of St. Augustine Beach Public Works Facility now accepts used motor oil. Citizens may drop off their used motor oil in a sealed container to the Public Works Department at 2055 Mizell Road.

Here's what you need to know:

•  Motor oil must be 'clean' (not contaminated with other products). This includes paint. Contaminated motor oil cannot be accepted, although you should call to find a location that will safely dispose of your contaminated oil in the event that you have accidentally mixed products.

•  Motor oil must be in a sturdy sealed container. A Ziploc would not be sturdy in this case.

•  Oil Filters are accepted. However, they must be in a sealed Ziploc bag, stored separate from the used motor oil.

•  Motor oil is accepted at the Public Works Department Monday - Friday from 10am - 2pm. You must call before bringing your motor oil (904) 471-1119. This is for your benefit, to ensure that employees are on-site to unload the oil and assist you.  

   Click here for some facts about used motor oil.

• The damage used oil causes comes from mismanagement.

• Re-refining used oil takes only about one-third the energy of refining crude oil to lubricant quality.

• If all used oil improperly disposed of by do-it-yourselfers were recycled, it could produce enough energy to power 360,000 homes each year or could provide 96 million quarts of high quality motor oil.

• One gallon of used oil used as fuel contains about 140,000 Btu of energy.

• A gallon of used oil from a single oil change can ruin a million gallons of fresh water - a year's supply for 50 people.

• Concentrations of 50 to 100 parts per million (ppm) of used oil can foul sewage treatment processes.

• Films of oil on the surface of water prevent the replenishment of dissolved oxygen, impair photosynthetic processes, and block sunlight.

• Oil dumped onto land reduces soil productivity.

• Toxic effects of used oil on freshwater and marine organisms vary, but significant long-term effects have been found at concentrations of 310 ppm in several freshwater fish species and as low as 1 ppm in marine life forms.

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