What to do with flammable liquid?

[ConansWitchBaby]

improvised explosives

 

[Representing_Tromba]

pour it into an enemies fuel tanks

But I don't have any enemies.

Many towns have household hazardous waste programs. Google your town's name and "hazardous waste" and they may have a hotline to tell you what to do.

I legally can't because I live in a dry county and they'll ask how I got it.

improvised explosives

I don't feel like being put on another list.

 

[TheTrinary]

There are businesses/ faicilities that collect hazardous waste. One of those.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

There are businesses/ faicilities that collect hazardous waste. One of those.

Well it's only hazardous if ingested or boiled.

 

[Succubiome]

Well it's only hazardous if ingested or boiled.

Most hazardous waste is only dangerous under certain conditions, except like, radioactive stuff.

 

[dummycake]

1 oz will make a person blind
2 oz will kill a person
3 oz will do the last two and make the cremation interesting.

That's what THEY want you to think.

 

[RepresentingSilence]

1 oz will make a person blind
2 oz will kill a person
3 oz will do the last two and make the cremation interesting.

I mean... You're not exactly denying it buddy

 

[Aaqil]

DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!

[Out of reactions, :(]

 

[Deleted member 84247]

[Out of reactions, :(]

I gave you mine.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Well, if you also have a turbine and a tub of water, you can use it as a improv generator as well since you have to burn it. Boil the water to generate steam and use steam to push turbine.

Hell, check if you have garbage in house that needs to be burnt. Since you are going to burn it anyway.

Also, if can, you should use the ashes from the byproduct as fertilizer if possible breathing in soot is unhealthy as downing ethanol.

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[Sohra]

Hi! Chemical lab tech here. As some have said, burning or evaporating it in a well ventilated place would work. As for toxicity, well ethanol is straight drinking alcohol, if its pure you can drink it. Granted if its not food grade there might be some nasty chemicals in there, even if only as a stabiliser. The" make you blind" bit is actually methanol, though it is produced during the distilling process of ethanol, so like i said, only drink if its food grade.

If you dont mind keeping it around, you can use it as an organic solvant, so grease, glue and other non-water soluble stuff will come right off with ethanol/methanol, though that includes some plastics and most dyes.

In conclusions, the best way to get rid of it fast is to burn it at high heat, this will make co2 and water vapor. I'd reccomend doing it outside on a sligthly windy day in small batches to reduce the chances of explosions and contain the fire hazard. If there is a residue, i would reccomend treating it as if it is heavy metal waste, but this should not be the case, as you said the chemical was pure and most ethanol soluble chemicals will just burn with it without a residue.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

But can a 'real man' be a pussy?

it takes a real man to be best girl

 

[Tempokai]

If it's a pure ethanol and you don't want to burn it, you can simply put it in the shallow but wide container and watch it evaporate real time

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Sanitize things with it.

 

[georgelee5786]

Do you live near woods?

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Toss a flare into it.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Hi! Chemical lab tech here. As some have said, burning or evaporating it in a well ventilated place would work. As for toxicity, well ethanol is straight drinking alcohol, if its pure you can drink it. Granted if its not food grade there might be some nasty chemicals in there, even if only as a stabiliser. The" make you blind" bit is actually methanol, though it is produced during the distilling process of ethanol, so like i said, only drink if its food grade.

If you dont mind keeping it around, you can use it as an organic solvant, so grease, glue and other non-water soluble stuff will come right off with ethanol/methanol, though that includes some plastics and most dyes.

In conclusions, the best way to get rid of it fast is to burn it at high heat, this will make co2 and water vapor. I'd reccomend doing it outside on a sligthly windy day in small batches to reduce the chances of explosions and contain the fire hazard. If there is a residue, i would reccomend treating it as if it is heavy metal waste, but this should not be the case, as you said the chemical was pure and most ethanol soluble chemicals will just burn with it without a residue.

I apologize. It is methanol, not ethanol. Sorry. Gonna fix that in main post.

 

[Placeholder]

But I don't have any enemies

It's a bootstrapping process. ‍?

If you have a cleared, fire-safe patch of backyard, I'd just take a empty 500mL food can, toss a bit of paper towel in it for wicking, then burn the stuff.

 

[melchi]

Do you have any tea lights?
You can also use it to erase sharpie

 

[georgelee5786]

Do you live near woods?

If so, hold onto it, and if you ever chop up a bunch of tree limbs for some reason, use the methanol as an accelerant to burn the limbs