Income generation of the business,
passing the cost of doing business, off on the costumer
looks like an additional $0.60cents a quart
or maybe
it's a state "Govt." mandated regulation/associated fee,
tax pretty-much, it is NY after all
business required to show it as an extra cost, for the customers to see, ???
why the prices are what they are, maybe ???
you'd think the business owner would just, absorb it into his pricing
part of the cost
& assoc. regulations of doing/running an automotive related business
(especially in one of
the many nanny states)
I've done my own since, I learned to do it, on my go-cart or mini-bike
some 50 years ago
we have a Waste Management collection area, that takes waste oil,
I don't think they charge anything,
not all of California is a shithole
if the oil is in the proper & sealed containers,
at our local dumps/waste transfer center
(we don't have a landfill here, they take it to the shithole areas)
it's better than those people needlessly
dumping it
because they are way to cheap to pay the fees
to recycle/dispose of it properly or do some research who takes it,
many of which
are also free...
it's really not rocket science