I think Autozone reclaims both coolant and oil, but not mixed together.

Wish I had an autozone closer . . . May give them a try anyway. Got too much of this stuff sitting around in old buckets.

I give my used oil to a friend who runs a car repair shop, when I do my own oil changes. He heats his shop with used oil. I put it into detergent bottles, which I find will cap tight enough so they don't leak on the way to his shop, unlike other bottles I have tried.

I don't have any used antifreeze around ATM.

Albertj

I pour mine in little saucers and feed the neighborhood cats....

Mark, you should have your own show.

I've been waiting for someone to call me out on this.
I actually have a shop available to me at the end of my road. They let me either bring my fluids to them and dump there, or i can change oil or coolant right there and be done with it.
Nice having an old neighborhood shop in a rural area right down the street, it's a place where farmers and gearheads alike can go to get work done or schedule a little lift time now and then.
BTW, how have you been Eldo, haven't heard from you in a while. Hope everything is OK.

Things are OK, but you're right - I did drop off the planet for a while. I've had a bunch of work, appointments and preparations to get out of the way to get ready for rotator cuff surgery. Now that I've dropped back from Dilaudid to Percocet, I'm starting to catch up on all the backed up email and other Web stuff.
Thanks for asking, Rick.

PS - And once upon a time, when leaving our log cabin at Tahoe in the winter, we had to pour anti-freeze in the toilet bowls... which got flushed each time we went back up.
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Al, I think he admitted that he really was having it handled properly when he said "I actually have a shop available to me at the end of my road. They let me either bring my fluids to them and dump there, or i can change oil or coolant right there and be done with it..."

Except for getting rid of those damn cats...

I've read through this thread but still have a few questions:

I thought Dexcool was pink and regular antifreeze green, someone may have topped my system off and mixed the two because it's brown now and I have to do something before winter. I'm going to flush and re-fill with Regular (green) antifreeze since it's something I prefer to do every couple years and the only good thing I've heard about the dexcool is that it does'nt kill the neighborhood cats. Will I have to change my hoses too? What problems might I encounter by switching from pink to green.
I'm thinking GM pushes the pink because they probably go through hundreds of thousands of gallons a year and care more about their EPA status than they do the consumer...could be wrong.

You just need to flush it out good, try using some Prestone cooling system flush or any other brand.
Point is flush it until only clear water comes out, remove the overflow tank from the fender well and give that a good cleaning as well. It is only held on by a few screws.
Check the underside of your radiator cap too, if it is brown buy a new one. Pull the thermostat and run the car with the flushing solution without the thermostat in the engine for a while, until it gets warm - it won't get up to normal temps but that's OK.
Drain all the water and flushing solution out, put in a new thermostat and seal, run it with straight garden hose water for a while and drain that out then add 50/50 of green anti-freeze (use distilled water to mix your anti-freeze) check all your hoses for dry rot externally. No need to replace hoses just because they had Dex-Cool in them. Install new cap, let it run until warm and bleed all air out of the system using the bleed valve in the thermostat housing, if you can get the front of the car up an incline or on ramps it makes it easier to bleed. Otherwise do the best you can on flat ground and re-bleed in a day or two to make sure there is no air left in the system.
You will have the cleanest cooling system in the neighborhood, but you need to after someone has mixed green and orange to make pink / brown. You'll be glad you did it the correct way when your done.
I do this same procedure to my car every 2 years because I'm anal, but i think it's worth it. If your hoses are original consider replacing them also for preventive measure. There is no reason why you should be stuck on the side of the road due to a blown radiator or heater hose.
Good Luck