I still have about seven or eight gallons of contaminated boat gasoline from the time that my boated decided to become a submarine. It doesn’t appear that I will be making Molotov Cocktails anytime in the near future and there doesn’t seem to be much demand for Napalm in my neighborhood. What do I do with the stuff? Is there an approved Green way to deal with it. Thanks in advance for your suggestions both serious and otherwise. I already realize the the IRS regional office is only two hours away in Atlanta but I have absolutely no interests in making an eight gallon deposit to them. Thank you again. 8T 
8T, forget about the IRS in Atlanta, there’s a big chain link fence with at least 2 strands of barb wire on top and a guard on the gate.
You would probably be better off call the S.C. Env. Compliance folks and asking or ideas or call a local fuel dealer and ask them how they handle contaminated fuel.
FYI
From an automobile website:
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, one of the best ways to dispose of contaminated fuel is to clean it and mix one-to-five with new fuel and burn it in a small engine, such as a lawn mower. Straining or pouring gasoline from the top of water can clean fuel, if large amounts of water are present. If the water concentration is not too high, fuel conditioners can be added to absorb the water.
Last year I asked at the dump (official site for disposal of chemicals) how to get rid of old fuel, the guy told me to leave the lid off and let nature take its course.
might take a while for 8 gallons to evaporate though
Eric
Will that cause global cooling or warming:p
8T, Don’t know about your neck of the woods, but we can recycle used motor oil, old paint and other pollutants at our local fire department. They also take computer and electronics parts. I’ve never tried but I’m sure they would take old gasoline.
Personally I use the stuff to burn out weeds and grass along my chain link fence. Jim
In years past, in our area, there would be a once a year event set aside for people to bring in their left-over paint, fuels, gases, batteries, pesticides, etc. to a centralized parking lot, where they would be met by qualified haz-mat teams, that would collect, separate, and dispose of hazardous materials and fuels, at no cost to the public. I don’t know if this is still being done, but it sure seems like a most effective way to keep this stuff out of landfills and other inapproptriate places. Check in your area and see if something of the sort is being done, and if it isn’t, suggest it to your local government.
2 bird with 1 stone:
Make the molotovs anyway, and use them to burn invasive plants.
Listen to Lew, call your local town or county waste department and ask them if they have anything in place. I once had over 8 fluid ounces of mercury that I wanted to get rid of. After calling around to companies that specialized in disposal or recycling, all of which would cost ME money, I called my county waste disposal office.
They took it and even picked the stuff up from my house!
I’m with Bamboozle call the county, some places you wouldn’t think of will take it , like Wal-mart will some times take used motor oil off your hands (small quantities), usually any place that handles gasoline will have the knowledge of how to depose of it…
Use a glass jar to pour into, through a piece of felt in a funnel. Gas goes through felt, water doesn’t. Let “water” sit and it will turn into a small amount of sludge.
Use recycled gas in car with can of “Heet” (wood alcohol with fancy label), in a tank 8 gallons should work just fine.
Talk to a small paving company… They like to paint it on old driveways they are paving over to soften the tar and help the next layer bind to it… The one I called was tickled to get it…
The local dump ( Sanitary disposal site ) takes paints and other fluids for disposal.
I used to live in an isolated northern community where we sometimes got gasoline delivered in 45 gal drums that had water contamination from condensation. If you use a chamois folded into a cone shape as a flilter it will strain water out of gasoline. The gas can then be used in smaller engines like a lawn mower for instance. Thus saving the gas but throw the water away it will not taste good at this point.:mrgreen:
Hey Folks,
Thank you for your suggestions. I’m going to check around with county officials to see if they have any kind of drop off services. I’ll take a shot at straining it and using it as a lost resort. Your suggestions are all greatly appreciated. 8T
“Green”?
I chuckle…
I try. It sure isn’t as easy as the “good old days” when you just dumped stuff anywhere. 8T