Where to put brake fluid...

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After changing the brake fluid in a couple of cars, I'm now left with rather a lot (by my standards, anyway) of used DOT4 brake fluid to dispose of.

Question is, what do I do with it? Oil I can just take down the tip. Anti- freeze can, allegedly, just be chucked down the foul sewer (the toilet, not the drain in the street!). But where can I chuck brake fluid? It's not miscible with oil, so presumably I shouldn't lob it into the council's oil recycling thingy. I s'pose it's based on ethylene glycol, the same as anti-freeze, but I don't like the idea of slinging it down the bog, either.

So - anyone know what I should do with it...?

Cheers,

Brian.

Grunff · Accepted Answer

Ethylene glycol (antifreeze) and polyethylene glycol (brake fluid) are totally different beasts. You could drink a small amount of ethylene glycol (**don't**) without it doing you too much harm. A similar amount of polyethylene glycol would almist certainly be fatal.

Don't flush it down the sink/toilet.

Oil collected at local recycling centres gets incinerated. This is a good way of getting rid of PEG. I dispose of mine with my waste oil.

Robin Graham · Answer

Oil I can just take down the tip.I would have thought so.Rob Graham

JULIAN HALES · Answer

i use old brake fluid, damn garages wont give it me and i refuse to useprefectly good virgin fluid.Im sure a council tip has a part for fluids, think they did in Sheffieldanyway

Uno Hoo! · Answer

Please don't tell me that you use old brake fluid for topping up your master cylinder reservoir?????Kev

JULIAN HALES · Answer

of course noti want it for the same reason i use mr muscle over cleaner, but its nevertouched my oven and i use johnsons kleer floor polish but its never beenused on my floor too.

Guy King · Answer

The message from "JULIAN HALES"  contains these words:He drinks it. You can tell from the way he misses the Shift key.

Andy Pandy · Answer

How do you explain his NAME then ?    :-)E-mail address, hopefully self-explanatoryAndy

Guy King · Answer

The message from Andy Pandy  contains these words:Perhaps he got his alter-ego to type that bit. Does strange things toyour brain, eythylene glycol.

""manx.exile " · Answer

I'll take your word on that!  	Pete

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