Dumping used White Spirit

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Having down sized in house and garden, I no longer have an 'evil' spot at the top corner of the garden to dump used white spirit, emulsion laden water etc.

What do you do that is legal and environmentally safe?
 
down to your local tip; they are obliged to have a container for hydrocarbons e.g. used engine oil. Stick the turps in an emgineoil can, add a bit of old black oil, and you will not need to explain how aliphatic hydrocarbons are different from alphaolefins.

Bet your life that all the local painters do the same. :)


being a mean person, I let white spirit and acetone setttle for a month or two so the solids accumulate at the bottom; then the top liquid is pretty well usable for non-posh painting.
 
Save it for wasps nests. I had one in my garden few years back, and poured a gallon of acetone down the hole then torched it. BOOM !! (hilarious). No more wasps nest. I reckon your old saved up white spirit will be just as suitable.
 
Capt. Clueless said:
Save it for wasps nests. I had one in my garden few years back, and poured a gallon of acetone down the hole then torched it. BOOM !! (hilarious). No more wasps nest. I reckon your old saved up white spirit will be just as suitable.
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Were they actually causing a problem, or are you simply a trainee sadist?
 
Capt. Clueless said:
Save it for wasps nests. I had one in my garden few years back, and poured a gallon of acetone down the hole then torched it. BOOM !! (hilarious). No more wasps nest. I reckon your old saved up white spirit will be just as suitable.
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You obviously did not watch the tv tonight - explaining how if we didn't have any wasps you would be overrun by garden PESTS! They are VERY useful insects.
 
Capt. Clueless said:
Save it for wasps nests. I had one in my garden few years back, and poured a gallon of acetone down the hole then torched it. BOOM !! (hilarious). No more wasps nest. I reckon your old saved up white spirit will be just as suitable.
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I must remember that for the next time I get one in the loft.
 
I clean brushes with the dirty white spririt, then rinse them in a small amount of new white spririt. Then wash in hot water and fairy liquid.
Eventually I end up with a jam jar 1/4 full of paint-based gunge, which just goes in the household rubbish for those nice council people to incinerate.
 
Very impoverished artists have been known to use the grey sludge at the bottom of their turps or spirit as grey paint. You can't effectively paint with spirit but it is useful for cleaning brushes and palette. It makes a horrible grey.
 
lw395 said:
I clean brushes with the dirty white spririt, then rinse them in a small amount of new white spririt. Then wash in hot water and fairy liquid.
Eventually I end up with a jam jar 1/4 full of paint-based gunge, which just goes in the household rubbish for those nice council people to incinerate.
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That's what I do except I add garden soil, sawdust or kitchen paper to soak up any liquid remaining
 
Capt. Clueless said:
Save it for wasps nests. I had one in my garden few years back, and poured a gallon of acetone down the hole then torched it. BOOM !! (hilarious). No more wasps nest. I reckon your old saved up white spirit will be just as suitable.
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Last time I did that I had a dozen or so emerge in flames and spiral to the ground, trailing smoke. Very "Battle of Britain". Very satisfying. I don't like wasps.
 
JumbleDuck said:
I don't like wasps.
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I don't mind wasps that much .... but why, when we're surrounded by 100 of acres of woodland, do they insist on building their nests in my roof space?

I have already had to replace a large part of a bedroom ceiling because they ate the plasterboard and the ceiling collapsed. Before that I didn't even know that they ate plaster so I now try and destroy their nests whenever I spot them near the roof. :(

Richard
 
Goes in the boatyard waste oil container, which goes to a re-refinery, which makes various petroleum products out of it again, mostly ships fuel. I understand that some of them have started paying for collection tanks full of dirty old engine oil, white spirit, some petroleum and the rainwater that goes in when someone forgot to close the lid again.

Pouring it in your garden is obviously an evil thing to do. I hope a mutant turnip will haunt you at night ;)
 
lw395 said:
I clean brushes with the dirty white spririt, then rinse them in a small amount of new white spririt. Then wash in hot water and fairy liquid.
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Much the same, but I squeeze washing-up liquid onto the brush and massage it into the bristles before rinsing out with warm water. Maybe this is the same as you but abbreviated in your post.
 
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