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Just to clarify, are you saying you're able to recycle your oil without inspection and also wont't have to undergo a full site inspection (if the gov remains shutdown)?

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sealed vessels under a certain capacity can be recycled normally by most companies. we dont often do it because its cumbersome, and larger holding tanks are safer than random barrels that get forgotten and dont have leak alarms or overflow alarms. large tanks require certification, samples, and periodic checks to make sure we arent secretly filling them full of nacho cheese or something and not waste oil.

that having been said, we will still require an EPA site inspection, and im pretty sure when that happens theyll be rather accommodating to any lapses in certification. Id dread having to check that voicemail box though.

If I worked for the EPA and found you had filled your large tank with nacho cheese I'd be impressed!

First you'd have to prove that it was, in fact, the nacho cheese that it was claimed to be. I am betting lots of companies would be happy to toss random chemical solvents without any environmental oversight into whatever tanks they thought could hold it. Witness the Silicon Valley superfund disaster, for one.

periodic checks to make sure we arent secretly filling them full of nacho cheese or something and not waste oil

I'm not sure there's a test sensitive enough to make this distinction. ;)

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