Does anyone know the best way to dispose of small quantities of gasoline?
Here's the story: I decided that my old lawn mower was no longer fit for service. Unfortunately, I decided this after I filled up my tank. Now I wanted to throw out the lawn mower, but it didn't seem to be a good idea to do so with a tank of gas. (It's a small mower. The tank probably held about 24 oz.)
So I decided to pour the tank into a bucket, and just reuse the gas by pouring it into the gasoline can that I use to fill my mower. I cleaned and dryed the bucket, and poured out the gas, but I saw that it had a fair amount of floating stuff in it. I don't want to pour that into my gas tank. So I poured it into a bottle. (Not an approved gasoline carrying container I might add.)
So now I have 16 oz of gasoline in a soda bottle, which seems like a bad idea. Throwing it into the garbage seems like a bad idea. Leaving it in my garage seems like a bad idea.
I'm full of bad ideas. Does anyone have a good one?
(And I hope no one minds this being in "science". At the heart of the question is a question about handling dangerous chemicals, which seems pretty sciency, and I just thought this would be the best place to find an intelligent suggestion.)
Here's the story: I decided that my old lawn mower was no longer fit for service. Unfortunately, I decided this after I filled up my tank. Now I wanted to throw out the lawn mower, but it didn't seem to be a good idea to do so with a tank of gas. (It's a small mower. The tank probably held about 24 oz.)
So I decided to pour the tank into a bucket, and just reuse the gas by pouring it into the gasoline can that I use to fill my mower. I cleaned and dryed the bucket, and poured out the gas, but I saw that it had a fair amount of floating stuff in it. I don't want to pour that into my gas tank. So I poured it into a bottle. (Not an approved gasoline carrying container I might add.)
So now I have 16 oz of gasoline in a soda bottle, which seems like a bad idea. Throwing it into the garbage seems like a bad idea. Leaving it in my garage seems like a bad idea.
I'm full of bad ideas. Does anyone have a good one?
(And I hope no one minds this being in "science". At the heart of the question is a question about handling dangerous chemicals, which seems pretty sciency, and I just thought this would be the best place to find an intelligent suggestion.)
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