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How Car Dealerships in India Recycle Used Engine Oil

Car dealerships in India drain engine oil all day. Recycling it through licensed partners is now a circular-operations story, not only an EHS chore. Globe Toyota's work with BioTradX, covered by I Am Renew and ET Auto, is the template.

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By BioTradX Team
A playbook for authorised car dealers to recycle used engine oil: CPCB-aligned recyclers, storage SOPs, and marketplace contracts like Globe Toyota x BioTradX.

Workshop SOP

Closed tanks, no coolant mix, dip measurement, weekly transfer, spill kit at the pit. One contaminated tank wipes the rate and can block a recycler.

Who is allowed to buy

CPCB- or SPCB-authorised recyclers and re-refiners. Cash buyers without papers are not a recycling programme.

Contract shape

Monthly litres, pickup SLA, invoice, and a named plant. JCBL Group press release documents how a large North Indian Toyota dealer framed this with BioTradX. OEM Update and Industry Samachar covered the facility-operations angle.

Roll out across outlets

One legal entity, many locations: list each workshop pin code on BioTradX so routes are real. Do not average litres in a head-office spreadsheet and hope a tanker finds the pits.

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