Find a Recycling Center Near You. Many service stations, repair facilities and quick lubes will accept used oil and used oil filters. Additionally, your local government or recycling coordinator may be able to identify curbside or other recycling programs in your area. The best way of locating a nearby collection center is to visit Aluminum recycling is one of the most popular forms of recycling. That’s because aluminum is one of the easiest common materials to recycle, as well as one of the most valuable. The energy conserved by recycling one aluminum can is enough to power listening to a full album on an iPod. Americans receive $800 million a year from recycling aluminum. Amazingly, this only represents 67 percent of all aluminum cans — another $1 billion gets thrown out. Generally, a common practice is to puncture the filters, drain the used oil into an appropriate container and then recycle the filters as scrap metal. The drained used oil should be recycled along with the used oil from the oil changes. Chapter 7 of Environmental Regulations and Technology: Managing Used Motor Oil (PDF) (84 pp, 6.09 MB, About PDF) provides a summary of the federal regulations and recommendations for used oil filters.