California used oil Drained engine, gear & hydraulic oil.

Which oils qualify for California used-oil routes?

California manages used oil as hazardous waste. The used-oil collection and consolidated routes don't accept oil with a flashpoint below 100°F.

That cutoff alone doesn't exclude oil at exactly 100°F. The routes also exclude oil mixed with hazardous waste and oil with 5 ppm PCBs or more.

Oil with more than 1,000 ppm total halogens is excluded unless the mixing presumption is rebutted. A separate laboratory rule for transporter loads going to transfer, recycling or out-of-state facilities requires a flashpoint above 100°F.

The law gives alternative tests for that rule, so confirm the shipment route. Minimal amounts of vehicle fuel are a specific exception to the mixture rule.

High halogens raise a presumption that federally listed halogenated waste was mixed into the oil. The presumption is rebutted for oil that came only from households or was collected only from very small quantity generators.

Other evidence that no listed hazardous waste was mixed in can also rebut it. A rebuttal doesn't remove California hazardous status.

Without a rebuttal, characterize the waste and manifest it with every listed code that applies. F001 and F002 apply only when their own listing and solvent-use conditions are met.

Animal or vegetable oil, unused oil, oil removed from wastewater and crude-oil spill waste aren't automatically used oil. Oil lawfully recycled under HSC 25250.4 can leave hazardous waste regulation.

It must meet the recycled-oil rules on purity, source, process and reuse in the statute. A documented HSC 25143.2 recycling exclusion can also apply.

Before transport, the generator must meet every testing, certification, notification and record rule that applies. A plan to recycle the oil doesn't qualify it.