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losterweil t1_j5a9i9b wrote

I live in a town in PA that doesn’t have any resource to take old gas or coolant. So I do it myself. Here’s my advice. Gasoline evaporates very quickly. Buy some bags of kitty litter, and contractor bags. Pour small amounts of gas into the kitty litter, let it evaporate, and repeat. Of course you want to do this in your yard in a place that has zero chance of kids playing or cigarette smokers. Throw it all in contractor bags and it goes to the landfill. Landfills are supposed to be properly lined to protect the environment, and if you use expensive contractor bags and double them up there’s a good chance your bags won’t even get punctured. I look at it like I can’t depend on a moron to do it so I’ll do it so it had a chance to not leech out into a water source.

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fobreezee OP t1_j5aa1fv wrote

Can you do this with gas that is mixed with oil for a leaf blower?

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KentuckYSnow t1_j5d6fi7 wrote

If it's just a mowers worth dump it into a car, it will be fine. I wouldn't run a whole tank like that, but 1 gallon out of 20 won't matter. Modern engines recirc oil into the combustion chamber to maintain crankcase pressure anyway..next year, throw some stabil into it.

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rocketcrotch t1_j5h5er0 wrote

This is good advice. It's much, much worse to run gas without oil in an engine that requires mixed gas than it is to run mixed gas in an engine that runs on gasoline.

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losterweil t1_j5aam4v wrote

I don’t see why not. If your area has a disposal service that is best, but this is a alternative solution. I’ve done it with oil mixed with coolant, gasoline, etc…. I’m sure someone is smarter than me and will tell me why I’m wrong though. I’m up for a solution better than mine. I work on all my own equipment and always have RV antifreeze, coolant, and what not.

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