Petrol Tank Disposal

Having changed my petrol tank I thought I'd be a good citizen and find out how to make it safe before taking it to the tip. The council's answer was that they will not take petrol tanks, made safe or not, and they wouldn't tell me how to make it safe. So I now have not only an unsightly petrol tank in the front garden, but a highly flammable unsightly petrol tank.

Apart from the traditional method of fitting to a vehicle, parking in a ditch or lay-by, and applying a match, how does one go about making a tank safe, and where do you get rid of them?

Reply to
Bob Miller
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Run it over with handy tracked vehicle (tank, drott, bulldozer, whatever) until it stops looking like a petrol tank, then dispose of it in the normal rubbish. :-)

Despite the smiley we have actually done this.

Reply to
EMB

yep - ask for forgiveness not permission - it just invites stupid answers~!

steve

Reply to
steve d

Sell it on Ebay :)

Reply to
Larry

Fill it with water, then the top off with an angle grinder. Once you have an entire side/top off you can safely cut it into six flat panels, which are thence regarded as plain scrap metal.

Alex

Reply to
Alex

wrap it in a wheelie bin liner & throw it in the tip without asking daft questions that get you noticed!!! ;o)

Reply to
Martin Edwards

Or just go there at a time when its busy and just put it in the scrap metal container as per normal items. Nobody has ever said anything to me and ive done this 3 or 4 times now. (petrol was drained out first obviously)

Reply to
Tom Woods

In message , Bob Miller writes

With great difficulty. When I was involved in LPG conversions we had a stack of them outside the back door of the workshop. Basically you have to have them purged and IIRC certified, all of which gets horribly expensive to get rid of something which is basically worthless. All of which reminds me of a notice at our local tip a while back "We do not except (sic) tyres and batteries"

Reply to
hugh

It keeps the purgers and certificators in beer and smokes though ..... and keeps the Environment Agency and H&S hand-wringers on track for their pensions.

Steve

Reply to
Steve

It also helps to keep pollutants out of landfill sites and, by implication, out of the soil and water table.

There's much worse going into landfill however, so it's the tip of an iceberg.

Reply to
Tim Hobbs

Funny though, things used to get recycled better before the daft legislation than after - things like car batteries, which are amazingly re-cyclable aren't accepted by many scrappies now.

Steve

Reply to
Steve Taylor

They still are amazingly recyclable, i's just that the traditional method of giving a school leaver a pair of wellies and a hammer to break them open at the bottom of the yard (you know the bit next to the wiring loom copper recycling bonfire) is not now considered environmentally acceptable.

AJH

Reply to
sylva

Quite a lot going on with battery recycling at the moment...

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Lead-acids aren't the problem - most are recycled already. It's the ni-cads etc which are the problem.

Reply to
Tim Hobbs

So who is accepting them ? There is no-one round here.

Steve

Reply to
Steve Taylor

Where are you? Your local dumpit should have a facility for them.

If you are a business user you probably need to talk to a specialist waste handling company - do a google for 'envirogreen', but there are lots of other people doing it.

Reply to
Tim Hobbs

Yes our local civic amenity waste transfer station accepts them as "household" waste.

AJH

Reply to
sylva

North Manchester ?

Steve

Reply to
Steve Taylor

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