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Greasy rags at home and what to do with them: As California said, depends where you live if you are average home mechanic with all this stuff to deal with. Where I live there is an incineration plant (waste to energy plant) that burns all our curbside home trash. So the greasy rags would be encouraged to increase the BTU. If you wash them the grease goes down the drain to the water treatment plant. If your local water treatment plant is fairly new their equipment is better to deal with grease and oil than old plants. Remember we drink the water from the plant so the less contaminants we put in the waste water the easier load on the plant and the cleaner the water. So I would say for the rags wash them at home or get on some "one to one" trade thing with a local garage or trucking service where they send their rags to a service for cleaning.