Revision question · Safety and your motorcycle

You service your own motorcycle. How should you dispose of used engine oil?

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Answer options

Take it to a local-authority site

Pour it down a drain

Tip it into a hole in the ground

Put it into your dustbin

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Take it to a local-authority siteThis was the right answer

Never pour the oil down any drain. The oil is highly polluting and could harm wildlife. Put it in a container and dispose of it properly at an authorised site.

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Take used oil to an approved collection pointReviewed guidance summary · The collection-site answer protects the environment; drain disposal is not an alternative.

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