Disposing of Lacquer Thinner..

Hey guys... so what do you guys do to hold lacquer thinner waste until u can dispose of it, or how do u dispose of it?

This stuff would melt through plastic, so regular paint thinner jugs might not cut it?

looking for a safe way to hold the waste until i can bring it to the recycle center. Glass Jar? The stuff comes in a metal jug but i don't have any of those.

thx

I have ben using a 5 gallon plastic gas can for all my waste, laquer thinner,acetone,ammonia etc.

Leave your thinner in a dish, or something with a large surface area.. it will evaporate in a day or two, leaving some paint sludge on the bottom that will dry..

(it's best to leave it outside where animals can't get to it).

I use the same dish over and over..

I use it as a weed killer around the outside of the house....kills those little bastards in no time :devil: :devil: :devil:

hahaha

i might try the evaporating method, otherwise a glass jar sounds good.

Wasn't aware that lacquer thinner needed to be disposed of "properly", you have any more info?

I think I'm going to follow 953k3's example and dump everything bad into a big jug, and empty it into the sink drain outside when it's full..

what you DONT want to do is dump it down the drain..

It's a hazardous solvent...

That goes right into your local stream or river..

So do you treat Castrol Super Clean and other cleaners the same way? (like oven cleaner)

Originally posted by primera man
I use it as a weed killer around the outside of the house....kills those little bastards in no time :devil: :devil: :devil:
Same here, but it kills the damn grass as well!

Originally posted by daggerlee
So do you treat Castrol Super Clean and other cleaners the same way? (like oven cleaner)

isn't CSC biodegradeable?

but seriously, i think it's time to stop polluting this crappy world. I'm going to play it safe and dispose of this stuff properly..

Plus, i wouldn't want to mix all the nasties all together... who knows wut will happen... whos a chemist?

Lacquer thinner contains a heck of a lot of solvents, organic ones like toulene and xylene (which can do a lot of damage once inside you), acetone (used in nail finger remover, very potent solvent), methanol, methyl ethyl ketone (something that's not very available here in the States but used a lot in Britain and other countries, I think they refer to it as white spirits?), and a heck of a lot of others...probably very bad for the environment, I guess, and you! Which is why you should all invest in double filter respirators :)

Oh, and I read in Scale Auto that (may be true) lacquer thinner only takes 30 seconds to travel to your liver after coming in contact with your skin, so be careful!

Wowsers

scary stuff