Recycling Plant for Oil Filters and Other Oily Waste Materials

Abstract

Wherever oil-changes are made on cars, trucks or other vehicles, that also means the exchange of used filters. Exchanges and maintenance works cause additional oily waste materials, such as oil cans, cleaning rags and saw dust. Nowadays these waste materials are to a large extent either deposited or burnt. Their quantity is alarmingly high, and so is their potential danger to the environment. In the Federal Republic of Germany alone this quantity amounts to approx. 160,000 cu.m per year. That leads to a great number of ecological problems.