YOU ARE A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL
Go to a municipal waste collection centre or one of our partner collection points
Discard your full oil-change cans in a municipal waste collection centre or at one of our partner collection points. By doing so, you are ensuring that this hazardous waste is collected in a safe way and suitably treated to give it a second lease of life. Your oil-change oil will enter the circular economy and, following treatment, will become a new oil again. It can also be recovered as energy.
FIND YOUR COLLECTION POINT
Find your nearest collection point using the interactive map below.
This list is non-exhaustive but is aiming to become so! We update it regularly, as local authorities join CYCLEVIA and as we develop new partnerships.
Since 9 June 2025 and for 6 months, you can also dispose of your waste oil in 21 Norauto, Carter-Cash and Midas centres/stores!
You can find these self-deposit collection points in the following counties (“départements”): Hauts-de-France (59, 62), Île-de-France (77), Grand-Est (10) and PACA (13, 83, 84).
NORAUTO, CARTER-CASH AND MIDAS, CYCLEVIA PARTNERS IN THE COLLECTION OF YOUR WASTE OILS!
YOUR OIL-CHANGE OIL IS A HAZARD FOR YOU AND YOUR ISLAND!
IF IT COMES IN CONTACT WITH YOUR SKIN,
it may be carcinogenic
IF IT SPREADS INTO THE ENVIRONMENT
it pollutes soil, aquifers, seawater and rivers
of waste oil spreads to cover an area of 1,000 m2 of water
1litre
WHAT DOES LEGISLATION SAY?
Discharging oil-change oil into the natural environment is prohibited (article R211-60 of the French Environment Code).
FOLLOW BEST PRACTICE!
Use leak-proof and closed containers to temporarily store oil-change oil and take it to a municipal recycling facility.
Use nitrile or latex gloves during handling.
FRYING OIL
DO NOT MIX YOUR OIL-CHANGE OIL WITH OTHER WASTE SUCH AS:
WATER
FUEL
COOLANT
SOLVENTS
BRAKE FLUID
FOLLOW SORTING INTRUCTIONS!
Driven by local authorities, and in order to help you to better sort your waste, instructions are gradually being defined and applied by lubricant manufacturers on their products’ packaging: this is the “Info-tri” sorting label!Watch out for the symbol! Oil-change oil and cans having contained new or waste oil should be discarded in a municipal recycling facility. Under no circumstance whatsoever must they end up in a bin for packaging or in the sewers!
WHAT HAPPENS
TO YOUR OIL-CHANGE OIL?
Any oil-change oil that you deposit in the collection banks will be given a second lease of life. Your oil-change oil will enter the circular economy and, following treatment, will become a new oil again. It will also be recovered as energy to supply power to cement kilns, heat or electricity power stations.
DISPOSAL IN A MUNICIPAL RECYCLING FACILITY
REGULATED
COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION
TO SECURE SORTING
SITES AND COLLECTION-TRANSFER
STATIONS
ENERGY RECOVERY
OIL SERVES AS FUEL FOR INDUSTRY
RETURN TO THE MARKET
REGENERATED OIL INTEGRATES THE COMPOSITION OF NEW OILS
OR
REGENERATION
OIL IS TREATED AND REGAINS
ITS INITIAL PROPERTIES