I have worked as a diesel mechanic for many years and seen a lot of people who dont give a crap about environmental regulations. I worked the lube bay at a busy TA truck stop and was instructed to throw dripping oil filters in the trash (some hold 2-3 quarts of fluid) and not worry about crushing them. I learned in college that a business will not spend money to do the right thing, only what is cheapest in their interest... Great video to reclaim waste oil and steel products (prevent pollution)
You guys can absolutely be proud of your work! Great to see. There are so many things that are not recycled that could be, but most often it is not lucrative enough and so it isn't done. A damn shame. You guys crossed one item of that list. Thank you!
I've done a lot of oil change for customers, and we always keep the oil used for the refineries to recycle it. But we are left with no right destination for the oil filters and the new oil containers that are empty and unused because they are contaminated waste. Fortunately we already see that it is possible to give destiny to one of these pieces that become useless after its time of life. Excellent video.
I did not know someone was out there reclaiming oil filters! This is the greatest video i have seen in a long time! Y'all should be very proud of your jobs!
Props. This is really cool. I am by no means a Tree-Hugger, and the income from this is not millions. This guys does it as a business, not to save the world. But by doing what he does he does help save the world. Good work man. Props to you.
It has always frustrated me that my auto parts store will take my oil but there is no way to recycle my oil filter. Thank you so much for your service to the environment!
cheesew1re all O'Reilly auto parts, coast to coast accept up to 5 gallons per person, per day of waste oil. And filters too. And the best part? It's free...
They should. As someone else said tell them if they want the oil they take the filter or they get nothing, especially when there is places out there who will happily take both...
It is relatively easy to "open" the oil filter and remove the filter element, then the metal parts can be recycled. This has the added advantage of being able to inspect the filter element for metal particles or coolant. To open an oil filter, cut the can just below the plate that screws the filter on. You can use a pair of tin snips, a metal cut off wheel, a really big pipe cutter or what ever else you think will work.
This awesome. Real American entrepreneurship. I wish I had enough filters to send y'all on a regular basis just to support your business and ethical approach to the whole thing. Bravo.
I never get tired of watching this video. I think it's great that you have found a way to recycle oil and the filters. Keep up the great work. Will from Texas.
I thought the filter in the foreground was an energy drink at first and I was wondering why Caterpillar makes an energy drink and then I read the title
No idea how or why this came up in my recommendations, but found it genuinely fascinating - you guys are eco and engineering heroes... and dude at the end signing the form is rocking that patterned jumper!
From Independent Wast Oil Co. in Jacksonville FL, I thank you for this much informative video to share for all the folks who don't know how well everything is recycled back into usable products in an environmentally friendly way. 🍍
Wow! I am amazed how this all works..I always wonder how recycling thing really works. I did a lot of small scraping it is really neat to see the process start to finish. I would try to collect and sort any metal I found no matter how small, I like the fact it will have many lives and not be wasted sitting in a dump.
Very, very well done business you have! I always wondered what happens to the filters. The local recycle station collects them along with the used oil, but I was never certain if they were just dumped into landfill or what. Now I know.
You are to be commended for your efforts expended towards keeping the amount of garbage out of the landfills that you do! Now if only everything that should be done like this were....the world would be a much better place for all(including of course the animals and the planet itself.)
Great idea! Very impressive process you have developed. That fact that NOTHIG goes to the landfill in incredible! Making money while helping the environment - smart!!
Pipe your exhaust heat though a boiler. Use the steam from the boiler to power a steam turbin hooked to a generator for electric. pipe the steam around to the other out buildings to provide heat in the winter. Get a MIL spec steam kettle for the company kitchen.
Man, what a novel concept. You are a true entrepreneur. We only need like 10,000 more companies like your Lucas Lane to help clean up the 500 million oil filters produced each year.
I have a small mechanic shop and never toss filters in the trash, but we do cut them open and drain them as needed, then toss them in the scrap bin. This process looks really efficient and I'm sure much better then me just cutting filters open to drain for a couple days.
I applaud this company doing humanity a most needed service,hopefully more companies get involved in cleaning up products that pollute our environment.Future generations ought not inherit the contamination of past generations.
Why we watch, curiosity #1 and we should all be looking for alternate streams of income, especially green income. Bravo Lucas Lane. I'm looking for the financials....
Mr. David I need that plant in Africa, I am working on the engine oil recycling plant i want to take part in this one. and it will be of good advantage to recycle the oil that is coming form the filter into engine oil again. can i please e-mail me at rabansilva8@gmail.com there is alot i want to ask you.
It's absolutely not about the money. Recycling is about the stewardship and preservation of our planet to ensure future generations have a clean planet to live on.
It's not about making money... It's about keeping our planet cleaner. Sure there's money made, it is oil after all. Used oil can be used for many things. Then you take that raw metal and send it to metal companies to be reused instead of rotting in the ground. For instance an oil filter company could be buying this from him and re-using it to make new filters. But none the less he's making money, it's not like you charge a trash company or the landfill to take your trash lol, he's doing oil change companies a favor by taking these (usually they pay someone to safely dispose of the oil/filters)
Used oil is classified a hazardous waste here in California due to toxicity reasons. I work for the US Navy in the Environmental Division at a Naval Air Station and we would like to use this video as a training tool for the sailors and Navy civilians that handle used oil filters in our satellite accumulation areas. This video gives an excellent overview of the process and demonstrates why we label drums of used oil filters as a liquid hazardous waste instead of a solid.
Even the federal EPA classifies waste oil as non-hazardous and for sure waste oil filters carry that classification. There are only a few states that mandate oil filters have to be recycled. I'm sure California is one of those states; it's one of the few. Give me a call sometime and we can talk about how you want to use the video.
FANTASTIC!! The guys who change my oil use waste oil as fuel to heat their building. BTW they never charge for oil change if you bring oil with you. Kudos to you and Powers Transmission here in Lexington KY !!
IMHO I believe we should be more into recycling than we currently are in the US. great job recycling oil filters and keeping them from getting in the landfills.
Thank you very much for the best efforts you do to keep the world with cleaner air. Would it be possible to absorb the hot air that comes through the chute(s) and pass it through piles of carbonic (dry) ice?
Thank you for the informative and somewhat gratifying video.... Is there a poss. use for the "waste" heat that your stacks emit? Local generation of electricity? Drying parts in another process? Drying a crop.....corn? Making beer? (I don't drink...)
@David Lucas hands down is amazing company and group of people who care about the environment that we all enjoy. Thank you guys and keep up the good work.
Not too sure why CZcams would recommend such an old video to me, but there's no denying it was educational. The huge Cat filter at 0:28 has me wishing this could have been uploaded at a higher resolution than 360p, if only to be able to read the part number. With a few tools, and some creativity, a filter that big could easily be transformed into an epic coffee mug (or beer stein, for those who go to Oktoberfest type events).
Wow this is really great! When I do an oil change, I take both the used motor oil and filter to a local Walmart where the recycle them. Do you know which company recycle those used oil filters collected by Walmart? I hope they're not ending up in a landfill in China or India.
That's absolutely fantastic I'm curious to how you got started into this it's interesting to me because of the end result I hate waste ! Thank you for posting the video and taking the time to do it ! 06/18/19 Spokane WA !
Great job, but one question, would it make more sense to just cut the filter open and remove the filer element and waste oil, so you don't have to use heat to remove it? Just pull the paper out and squeeze the oil out?
Yes. I have argued that point to death. If they cut the filter and remove the paper, they can use hot water & steam to remove the remaining oil. This process instead burns the paper filter and any remaining oil.
it would not be cost effective, and it would be very labour-intensive to open each filter and remove the contents, plus, you'd still have the sludge and paper to dispose of in a safe manner....the baking process used in the video cooks away the combustible components and creates no. 1 steel, which is ready to transport and sell.
Cutting filters open one by one would be quite a time-consuming process, and on the DIY side, all the oil filter opening tools I've seen tend to be prohibitively expensive.
Do you know if any chain auto part store take filters? I bring my oil to a huge fuel tank in the back of the store. I am not aware of an oil filter drop off.
Worked for a company that used a service like this.They charged y the barrel not weight,so we redesigned a small crusher,that would do all our filters.After draining the filter for a few days,filter was crushed waste oil put in the proper drums for recycling,crushed filters put in a barrel.Recycler would often ask us why our barrels were so much more heavy than other customer's.We were furnishing our own barrels which were never returned so I guess everything worked out.
I'm amazed, and impressed. I guess this is as good as it gets. Unless you can make oil filters that have replaceable catridges, this would be the best alternative.
That’s great that some companies actually crush oil filters what I don’t understand is why are oil bottles and containers being allowed to be thrown out with regular trash and not being recycled
It just adds another step which is not necessary. Thanks for thinking about it though. Shredding can be dangerous if you hit a gas filter hidden amongst those oil filters.
I have worked as a diesel mechanic for many years and seen a lot of people who dont give a crap about environmental regulations. I worked the lube bay at a busy TA truck stop and was instructed to throw dripping oil filters in the trash (some hold 2-3 quarts of fluid) and not worry about crushing them. I learned in college that a business will not spend money to do the right thing, only what is cheapest in their interest... Great video to reclaim waste oil and steel products (prevent pollution)
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Then you should have reported that company to the authorities, otherwise you are tacitly supporting their unsociable bad practice.
You guys can absolutely be proud of your work! Great to see. There are so many things that are not recycled that could be, but most often it is not lucrative enough and so it isn't done. A damn shame. You guys crossed one item of that list. Thank you!
I've done a lot of oil change for customers, and we always keep the oil used for the refineries to recycle it. But we are left with no right destination for the oil filters and the new oil containers that are empty and unused because they are contaminated waste.
Fortunately we already see that it is possible to give destiny to one of these pieces that become useless after its time of life.
Excellent video.
I did not know someone was out there reclaiming oil filters! This is the greatest video i have seen in a long time! Y'all should be very proud of your jobs!
This is amazing! I work at a shop and I know we always save our used filters and send them to a similar facility. Keep up the good work you guys!!!
Props. This is really cool. I am by no means a Tree-Hugger, and the income from this is not millions. This guys does it as a business, not to save the world. But by doing what he does he does help save the world. Good work man. Props to you.
It has always frustrated me that my auto parts store will take my oil but there is no way to recycle my oil filter. Thank you so much for your service to the environment!
cheesew1re all O'Reilly auto parts, coast to coast accept up to 5 gallons per person, per day of waste oil. And filters too. And the best part? It's free...
They should. As someone else said tell them if they want the oil they take the filter or they get nothing, especially when there is places out there who will happily take both...
It is relatively easy to "open" the oil filter and remove the filter element, then the metal parts can be recycled. This has the added advantage of being able to inspect the filter element for metal particles or coolant. To open an oil filter, cut the can just below the plate that screws the filter on. You can use a pair of tin snips, a metal cut off wheel, a really big pipe cutter or what ever else you think will work.
AutoZone takes oil filters.
Every oreillys I've used just throws away the filter.
This awesome. Real American entrepreneurship. I wish I had enough filters to send y'all on a regular basis just to support your business and ethical approach to the whole thing. Bravo.
I never get tired of watching this video. I think it's great that you have found a way to recycle oil and the filters. Keep up the great work. Will from Texas.
Great job!!
What a wonderful yet messy work.More power to you guys.
Thank you for keeping part of environment clean.
I thought the filter in the foreground was an energy drink at first and I was wondering why Caterpillar makes an energy drink and then I read the title
No idea how or why this came up in my recommendations, but found it genuinely fascinating - you guys are eco and engineering heroes... and dude at the end signing the form is rocking that patterned jumper!
Excellent. Often wondered what happened to them. Hopefully there are a lot more reclaim sites like yours. Good on you, well done.
Aren't they still around?
Absolutely love what you are doing to protect the environment! You deserve a million kudos! Best wishes for you and your fabulous company!
Fascinating & Fantastic in equal measures I hope your company is going stronger than ever.
From Independent Wast Oil Co. in Jacksonville FL, I thank you for this much informative video to share for all the folks who don't know how well everything is recycled back into usable products in an environmentally friendly way. 🍍
Alaska One Just read the Bible and you can spot the landmines. I live in the worst part of it, and no problems.
Alaska One But yeah, we have a death toll higher than giraffe pussy
Wow! I am amazed how this all works..I always wonder how recycling thing really works. I did a lot of small scraping it is really neat to see the process start to finish. I would try to collect and sort any metal I found no matter how small, I like the fact it will have many lives and not be wasted sitting in a dump.
Very, very well done business you have!
I always wondered what happens to the filters. The local recycle station collects them along with the used oil, but I was never certain if they were just dumped into landfill or what. Now I know.
are you in the US?
You are to be commended for your efforts expended towards keeping the amount of garbage out of the landfills that you do! Now if only everything that should be done like this were....the world would be a much better place for all(including of course the animals and the planet itself.)
Great idea! Very impressive process you have developed. That fact that NOTHIG goes to the landfill in incredible! Making money while helping the environment - smart!!
Really cool! Always nice to see people find new ways to recycle products instead of just burying everything in a landfill.
Saw this bumper sticker: when you throw something away, where is away?
Pipe your exhaust heat though a boiler. Use the steam from the boiler to power a steam turbin hooked to a generator for electric. pipe the steam around to the other out buildings to provide heat in the winter. Get a MIL spec steam kettle for the company kitchen.
Industry 4.0
I was thinking that it was a waste to just let all that heat out in the air. Timothy, it seems like a possible and greate solution... :-)
Timothy Hays You made this way to difficult to understand.
Pretty good idea. Use that exhausted to generate electricity...
Free energy and creates work for boilermakers welders pipefitters ect
America needs more businesses like this. Bravo, guys! Keep up the good work!
Good job of such excellent use of valuable materials for recycling. Great Job Lucas Lane, Inc.!
Glad to hear that someone is taking care of our old oil filters. This restores the faith in humanity a bit. :)
HenkkaWRC Trust God not humans
@@iWh15tl3 I called out for god but my oil filter is still here
only if they are all collected, most go to landfill.
They wouldn't be doing it if there wasnt a profit in it.
Man, what a novel concept. You are a true entrepreneur. We only need like 10,000 more companies like your Lucas Lane to help clean up the 500 million oil filters produced each year.
This looks fantastic. A very important recycling program, very efficient to boot!
I have a small mechanic shop and never toss filters in the trash, but we do cut them open and drain them as needed, then toss them in the scrap bin. This process looks really efficient and I'm sure much better then me just cutting filters open to drain for a couple days.
Good work guys!
More cities should be doing this globally!
Thank you guys for the hard work so our children can have a better future 👍🏼
As a former engine rebuilder I had no idea . SO nice to see this !!
People like you make this world a better place.
Great business. Love the closed loop nature of the heating and secondary heating using the reclaimed oil.
What type of dipsticks give this a thumbs down.
Great to see some folk give a damn about the Environment.
Thumbs up from England.
I am a big supporter of both the invironment and the outvironment!
Johnny Pea I GET IT!! lol (Insert picture of fry here)
Mik Seer Haha, dipstick
Stay in England as shole
Robby Schemonia ..
Kick ass service you provide guys!! Sure hope you are still in business. This needs to be done. Thank you from my great grandchildren.
I applaud this company doing humanity a most needed service,hopefully more companies get involved in cleaning up products that pollute our environment.Future generations ought not inherit the contamination of past generations.
Why we watch, curiosity #1 and we should all be looking for alternate streams of income, especially green income. Bravo Lucas Lane. I'm looking for the financials....
If they take your oil they should take your filter. If they don't, tell them then they don't get your oil.
Mr. David I need that plant in Africa, I am working on the engine oil recycling plant i want to take part in this one. and it will be of good advantage to recycle the oil that is coming form the filter into engine oil again. can i please e-mail me at rabansilva8@gmail.com there is alot i want to ask you.
silva raban
It's absolutely not about the money. Recycling is about the stewardship and preservation of our planet to ensure future generations have a clean planet to live on.
It's not about making money... It's about keeping our planet cleaner. Sure there's money made, it is oil after all. Used oil can be used for many things. Then you take that raw metal and send it to metal companies to be reused instead of rotting in the ground. For instance an oil filter company could be buying this from him and re-using it to make new filters. But none the less he's making money, it's not like you charge a trash company or the landfill to take your trash lol, he's doing oil change companies a favor by taking these (usually they pay someone to safely dispose of the oil/filters)
Tell that to the one who invest on the plant. Im environment engineer but the focus it's clear. It's a investment
Cool video. You guys ought to franchise! Add a greenhouse to capture the heat and the carbon and you're as close to closed loop as you can get!
Thank You Lucas lane Inc. Great to see companies like yours care.
This is pretty sweet. Nicely done. Nice to see that you reuse some of the oil.
such a simple process with multiple benefits and a good job creator.
Highly informative! I used to work in the automotive industry and have thought about this quite a few times!
Used oil is classified a hazardous waste here in California due to toxicity reasons. I work for the US Navy in the Environmental Division at a Naval Air Station and we would like to use this video as a training tool for the sailors and Navy civilians that handle used oil filters in our satellite accumulation areas. This video gives an excellent overview of the process and demonstrates why we label drums of used oil filters as a liquid hazardous waste instead of a solid.
Even the federal EPA classifies waste oil as non-hazardous and for sure waste oil filters carry that classification. There are only a few states that mandate oil filters have to be recycled. I'm sure California is one of those states; it's one of the few.
Give me a call sometime and we can talk about how you want to use the video.
Awesome! We need this in every state!
Who is watching in 2019 i am and thanks for recycling oil filters and making a greener world
Nah bro. I'm here in 2023
@@TheWittyGeek
Same
@@mattsprayberry0 same bro
Idk why listening to stuff like this in the background helps me focus/concentrate or relax???? The narrator has such a calming voice
Keep it up! I'm always disappointed when someone recommends I just put the filter in the garbage in a sealed plastic bag.
Very impressive, thank you for caring about the environment.🌎🌎🌎
Why am I watching this at 2AM?
Rudpavv Rudpavv I'am at 4 am😂
How the fuck should anyone know???
You're calling someone a loser in a comment that is how old?
Who's the real loser here?
Try less beer.
Rudpavv Rudpavv ...I'm watching this bc there's never anything good to watch on tv! Hi from Texas good sir
Stopped here ti say thanks and kudos to you. I hope and wish you business is still doing great and continue to do so
FANTASTIC!! The guys who change my oil use waste oil as fuel to heat their building. BTW they never charge for oil change if you bring oil with you. Kudos to you and Powers Transmission here in Lexington KY !!
Really interesting.
Nice narration.
Hat off to you, great idea and so worth while.
I live 30 minutes from from these guys. Never heard of them. This is awesome!!
You should make a longer video of the whole process. I love watching stuff like this.
Good informative video! Thank you for sharing!
Can you ask advance auto parts to be part of this?
IMHO I believe we should be more into recycling than we currently are in the US. great job recycling oil filters and keeping them from getting in the landfills.
Good work. That's why I recycle the filters too. They still hold a lot of oil. Some people just don't understand.
Thank you very much for the best efforts you do to keep the world with cleaner air. Would it be possible to absorb the hot air that comes through the chute(s) and pass it through piles of carbonic (dry) ice?
Thank you for the informative and somewhat gratifying video.... Is there a poss. use for the "waste" heat that your stacks emit? Local generation of electricity? Drying parts in another process? Drying a crop.....corn? Making beer? (I don't drink...)
This is why I Love Pennsylvania. There are alot of these types of small businesses around the state.
@David Lucas hands down is amazing company and group of people who care about the environment that we all enjoy. Thank you guys and keep up the good work.
You should sell the oil filter cubes on E-bay... I would like to buy one for my garage....looks neat...
There's always a price. 💪
Nice work you guys. good luck.
I love this I did not know that Orielys takes oil filters i do Marine repair and sometimes my oil filters add up quick
Helping the environment and also making business whatta genious, keep up ❤
Cool process David
Thanks for the video. I never thought these were recycled like this
your welcome
+David Lucas hi
Sir can you send me plant details on my mail Id
Sajan.lunee@gmail.com
With 6 cars in the family, I wondered where my filters go after I turn them in (by the bucket load) to O'Reilly's. Very cool video
Not too sure why CZcams would recommend such an old video to me, but there's no denying it was educational.
The huge Cat filter at 0:28 has me wishing this could have been uploaded at a higher resolution than 360p, if only to be able to read the part number.
With a few tools, and some creativity, a filter that big could easily be transformed into an epic coffee mug (or beer stein, for those who go to Oktoberfest type events).
Wow this is really great! When I do an oil change, I take both the used motor oil and filter to a local Walmart where the recycle them. Do you know which company recycle those used oil filters collected by Walmart? I hope they're not ending up in a landfill in China or India.
This is awesome, thanks guys.
That's awesome. Every city in every state ought to have such a company operating.
Thanks for your work. I have always wondered what happens to all these filters.
why don't you buy a clipboard so your vendor doesn't have to sign on his hand?
when i saw this in my recommended with 2 mln viws it made me think when totally random videos would go viral for no reason
Dude are you serious for real????
Great Video - Fantastic set up here - We actually manufacture the baling machines which compact the filters and remove the oil here in the UK
That's absolutely fantastic I'm curious to how you got started into this it's interesting to me because of the end result I hate waste ! Thank you for posting the video and taking the time to do it ! 06/18/19 Spokane WA !
Great job, but one question, would it make more sense to just cut the filter open and remove the filer element and waste oil, so you don't have to use heat to remove it? Just pull the paper out and squeeze the oil out?
Yes. I have argued that point to death. If they cut the filter and remove the paper, they can use hot water & steam to remove the remaining oil. This process instead burns the paper filter and any remaining oil.
it would not be cost effective, and it would be very labour-intensive to open each filter and remove the contents, plus, you'd still have the sludge and paper to dispose of in a safe manner....the baking process used in the video cooks away the combustible components and creates no. 1 steel, which is ready to transport and sell.
I will buy your business for 25 schmichels
Geographer 4 fun is that golden schmichels or silver schmichels?
Cutting filters open one by one would be quite a time-consuming process, and on the DIY side, all the oil filter opening tools I've seen tend to be prohibitively expensive.
Do you know if any chain auto part store take filters? I bring my oil to a huge fuel tank in the back of the store. I am not aware of an oil filter drop off.
David James Eco station
David James every big name auto parts store, every car dealership with a repair shop I've ever seen will take your used oil and filter
Where I used to live in Florida, only one AAP in the county had the ability to take used oil filters and coolant.
Pepboys
Nice simple and concise video and easily explained. Well done!
Worked for a company that used a service like this.They charged y the barrel not weight,so we redesigned a small crusher,that would do all our filters.After draining the filter for a few days,filter was crushed waste oil put in the proper drums for recycling,crushed filters put in a barrel.Recycler would often ask us why our barrels were so much more heavy than other customer's.We were furnishing our own barrels which were never returned so I guess everything worked out.
"Heat Vapor" yeah.
Yea theres definitely carbon in it. But seriously it's better than the landfill.
i remembered the movie WALL-E when i watched it.
Very impressive approach and technology. Wish your business well.
Thank you for giving us all a greener world. Peace too. VF
It's very interesting.
OK, but how do you manage a poison pollution associated with heat treating?
Extreme temps.
This is awesome!!! You need to start this at the lawn mower repair shops.
I'm amazed, and impressed. I guess this is as good as it gets. Unless you can make oil filters that have replaceable catridges, this would be the best alternative.
google Lucas Lane Inc. and it will come up on the map.
I throw mine in the garbage after I pour my oil in the storm drain.
Good troll, sir
Partikkus LOL! You could always use the waste oil,to kill poison oak along fence lines.
George Boyd correct. I use all my waste oil to kill any weed by the fence of my house. Remember radiator coolant fluids kills unwanted weeds/ grasses
Partikkus youre not funny.
c3h8O hey, that's pretty hot.
Looks like a very professional and well thought out operation!
That’s great that some companies actually crush oil filters what I don’t understand is why are oil bottles and containers being allowed to be thrown out with regular trash and not being recycled
some things need to be developed, for example the papaer in the filter and rubeer part in it.
A few scraps of paper is pretty insignificant compared to 70,000 tons of steel. How many pounds of paper do you flush down the toilet every year?
I always wondered and now I know. Thanks for sharing and protecting our resources and environment.
It just adds another step which is not necessary. Thanks for thinking about it though. Shredding can be dangerous if you hit a gas filter hidden amongst those oil filters.
Thank you David to you and your family for the good work you do.