Related Procedures

Sheet steel fuel tank
Drain fully before opening, clean thoroughly and flush out with a non-combustible substance, e.g. with water, steam or an inert gas, e.g. nitrogen, carbon dioxide. Then open the fuel tank about 30 x 30 cm with a chisel or sheet steel shears. Dispose of the vented fuel tank as scrap metal.

Plastic fuel tank
Drain fully before opening, clean thoroughly and flush out with a non-combustible substance, e.g. with water, steam or an inert gas, e.g. nitrogen, carbon dioxide. Then open the fuel tank about 30 x 30 cm with an appropriate saw.

The cut-open plastic fuel tank can then be returned in Germany through the Mercedes Recycling System (MeRSy) as "other plastic parts" for recycling. Workshops which are not linked to the MeRSy can dispose of plastic fuel tanks which have been pretreated as described above with their other domestic refuse-like industrial refuse.

Transportation
Old fuel tanks which have been cut open and vented are not subject to the dangerous goods regulations.