Safety Kleen Systems, Inc., Plano, Texas is being awarded a maximum $12,960,829 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite quantity contract for maintenance coverage of closed loop re-refined oil project.     More...

Tim Westerdale, president and CEO of General Oil, said the company hasn't owned the property since 2004, and that the environmentally-unfriendly practice was done years ago by a company that no longer exists. “When we bought the place, we thought the remediation had been done properly, and, obviously, it hadn't,” Westerdale said. Westerdale thinks the original owner was a company called Mergraf Oil, which he believes owned the land in the 1950s or 1960s.    More...

Ohio regulators are accusing a Columbus oil recycling company, Heartland Refinery Group, of exceeding air pollution limits. The state also is seeking civil penalties of up to $25,000 per day per violation.    More...

Shane Terry, President of North American Lubricants Company, will present on "Re-refined Oil, Future Oil, and Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF)". Shane has experience in all facets of the lubricant industry. Before joining North American Lubricants in 2005, Shane held positions in operational management, logistics, sales, marketing and finance. He is originally from Northern California where he held the position of Vice President of Sales & Marketing for a large petroleum distributor that served five western states through seven distribution facilities. Shane has served on national distributor and manufacturer focus groups and recently served a 2-year term on the Board of Directors for the Automotive Oil Change Association (AOCA).    More...

Captain Sergey Chertov stated that he was not aware exactly what would happen to the toxic waste and that he was simply following instructions. His clients sent him several emails in which they instructed him to keep silent about the presence of caustic soda in the chemical waste aboard the Probo Koala. Caustic soda is used to remove the sulphur from low-grade used oil to turn it into cheap petrol. The process took place aboard the Probo Koala while sailing in the Mediterranean because environmental laws made it impossible to process the used oil on land.    More...

As part of the non-profit BC Used Oil Management Association, Katya Kirsh and Michelle Haas are visiting over 500 locations around the province this summer, spreading the message that--quite literally--every drop of oil counts. Along the way, they'll be informing BC residents about how to properly dispose of and recycle their own oil.     More...

TAMPA - NexLube Tampa LLC, which was created by a Boca Raton-based parent NexLube in February, is seeking a lease at the Port of Tampa to construct a $75 million used oil reprocessing and blending plant that would begin operations in 2012.    More...

Shares of Heritage-Crystal Clean (HCCI) also rose after the cleaning services provider priced an offering of 3 million shares of common stock at $8 per share, a premium to Tuesday's closing price of $7.76. Underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares. Heritage-Crystal Clean said it intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund a portion of the construction costs for the used oil re-refinery that it plans to build in Indiana. Shares were lately up 5% to $8.15.     More...

Aaron Oil is a leader in the oil recycling business with more than 100 employees and annual sales of almost $50 million. The company’s processing plant facility is located in Saraland, AL and it has additional facilities in a number of Southeastern U.S. cities. Dan Cowart’s, President and CEO of Aaron Oil Company, is onvinced that a combination of many types of absorbent materials will be used to soak the oil up in the Gulf and recovering the oil from these materials will be as critical as the clean-up efforts. “As it gets closer, they will be basically using everything possible,” he says. “It’s just a matter of what’s available and deployed.”    More...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold three public hearings in June on proposals cutting mercury emissions in half and significantly reducing other toxic air pollutants from industrial and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators The agency will also take comment at the hearings on a proposal to identify which non-hazardous secondary materials would be considered solid waste and which would be considered fuel. Secondary materials are those that are not the primary product of a manufacturing or commercial process and include consumer and industrial materials that are no longer used for their original purpose, such as scrap tires, used oil, wood, coal refuse, and construction and demolition debris.    More...

NexLube Tampa LLC is a Florida-based company operating out of Boca Raton Florida. NexLube opened in February 2010. The company will develop a used oil re-refining plant in Tampa Florida and plans to develop additional plants in strategically underserved markets. NexLube will secure a long-term deep water port site lease with Tampa Port Authority, complete a technology license with Viscolube / Axens and obtain all environmental permits within 2010. NexLube will seek long-term agreements for supply of raw materials and for off-take agreements. NexLube is on schedule to begin plant operations in 2012.    More...

Thermo Fluids, Inc. hired Greg Guard as its chief marketing and sales officer. Guard is based in the company’s Scottsdale headquarters office and brings 15 years of experience in companies that range from a $13 billion multinational organization to start-up firms in industries like environmental services, manufacturing and telecommunications.    More...

The operator of an auto-wrecking yard who was charged last year with illegally dumping used oil, antifreeze and 500 gallons of gasoline near the Green River in Kent was arrested yesterday for investigation of similar charges at a new wrecking yard he started in West Seattle near the Duwamish River.     More...

Green Earth Technologies' G-OIL is not a re-refined or recycled oil, but a blend of nature's American grown base oils with nanotechnology resulting in a bio-based full synthetic motor oil. These saturated fats, whose molecular single-bond carbon chains are similar to common petroleum oils, have no harsh effects on the environment, and cut dependence on foreign oil and offshore drilling    More...

Enterprise Holdings, which is the parent company of Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental, is rolling out a sustainability initiative company-wide to reduce both energy use and energy costs by 20 percent over the next five years. The company said it recycles about 710,000 gallons of used motor oil and more than 676,000 used oil filters annually.     More...

Ever wonder what happens to the millions of gallons of motor oil drained from our cars each year in the course of repairs and maintenance? When treated carelessly, it's a major source of pollution to waterways. The EPA estimates that as much as 40 percent of the nation's oil pollution may come from improper disposal of used motor oil by shade-tree mechanics. Listen to audio program!     More...

Each year, Safety Kleen recycles more than 200,000 gallons of oil from racing events. But the company is also involved in the Gulf cleanup. "We're based right now in Biloxi Mississippi awaiting anything that comes ashore," said Safety-Kleen spokesman Buddy Judy. "Our trucks will be there to clean it up." Safety Kleen has 50 trucks positioned near the spill site, with more on standby. Judy said much of the crude oil seeping into the Gulf will eventually be used. "There's plenty of people there already to get that water out of it," he said. "And make products we can all make use of."    More...

HECO has been cited for three counts of failure to make a hazardous waster determination and one count of storing hazardous waste without a permit. The state Department of Health says an inspection of the facility in 200 showed HECO had disposed of paint thinner, solvents and used oil on several occasions without making a hazardous waste determination. HECO also allegedly stored open containers of hazardous waste in four satellite accumulation areas.    More...

NORA has learned about numerous PCB incidents in which the collector/recycler has had his trucks, equipment and/or tanks contaminated by PCBs from generators whose used oil contained high quantities of PCBs. NORA will present a comprehensive examination of this issue along with the best advice currently available.     More...

Best Buy will continue the recovery and proper disposal of other appliance waste streams such as Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury switches, and used oil. By joining the RAD partnership, Best Buy will add the capture and destruction or recycling of refrigerants and appliance insulating foam that contain CFCs, HCFCs, and HFCs. To learn more about the EPA Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD), visit http://epa.gov/ozone/partnerships/rad/index.html To learn more about Best Buy's recycling programs, visit www.bestbuy.com/recycling.     More...

During the past 18 months of constant shifts in the oil recycling and environmental services industries, Arizona-based Thermo Fluids Inc. has gained market strength and profits, successfully poising itself for continued national growth.     More...

EPA complaint alleges Reed Skenandore violated the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by open dumping of solid waste, open buring of solid waste, failure to notify EPA of waste handling and to apply for an EPA identification number, failure to label containers of used oil and failure to respond to releases of oil to the environment. Violations of the act can assess a civil penalty of up to $37,500 per day, per violation.     More...

For the quarter ended March 31, 2010, Vertex reported consolidated revenue of $13.27 million, an increase of 69% over the same period in 2009. Gross profit increased in the first quarter to $1.03 million compared to gross profit of $18,492 for the first quarter of 2009. Net income for the first quarter was $270,011, which compared favorably to a net loss of $613,884 during the same period in 2009.     More...

Thermo Fluids, Inc., an Arizona-based environmental services company, has acquired Proleum’s used oil collection business in Maricopa County, which includes oil collection, recycling and environmental services. The sale is effective May 1, 2010.     More...

Cyclone Power Technologies continues to advance the development of our Mark V engine for use with waste oil fuels. The U.S. Department of Energy has estimated that the efficient recycling of energy such as used oil and waste heat over the next 20 years can help reduce our national dependence on petroleum imports, spark billions of dollars in private investments, and create up to one million jobs in the U.S.     More...

British Columbia Used Oil Management Association has sponsored oil ambassadors since 2003. Follow this years ambassadors' tour in their Volkswagen Jetta TDI "Bubbles" via Twitter.    More...

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund a portion of the construction costs for the used oil re-refinery that it expects to build in Indiana.    More...