What do these toxins and carcinogens have to do with our company's initiative?  All of these chemicals form and are in your tap water when a community's water supply is contaminated by discarded motor oil - when chlorine interacts with hydrocarbons.  So, by treating drinking water to prevent biological illness, government is effectively dosing people with agents that cause cancer.  Chlorine by itself doesn't create those chemicals - they require the presence of hydrocarbons - and so simple contamination by fertilizers (which are not hydrocarbons) does not result in these powerful toxins and carcinogens.  And the lethality of the chemicals is maximized when bromide is also present and combines to form the toxins and carcinogens.  And all of these toxins and carcinogens damage the kidneys and liver - dramatically elevating mortality rates for both cancers and diseases of those organs.  And the presence of these chemicals in tap water is greatly reduced by our initiative that reduces the discarding of used motor oil. 
 
We accomplish this by creating a positive, significant and effective economic inducement for recycling used motor oil (UMO).​
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HOW BIG IS THE PROBLEM?  HOW BIG IS THE OPPORTUNITY?
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In the U.S., every year 880 million gallons of used motor oil are dumped into the environment (the equivalent of 6 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spills).  The EPA estimates that for every gallon of used oil dumped, 1 million gallons of ground and surface water are contaminated by that dumping - contaminating enough water to fill Lake Huron each year.