I feel this
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Hermann
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This disease is strong with this one.
I’ve been doing something similar although less elaborate since the early 1970’s. 
A couple of people in my eaa group have these. I think somebody patent this a few years back.
I pretty much only buy 5 qt containers, and let them drain into another partial container. This stuff ain't cheap and you never know when you might need a little top off.
Service station in the 70's, In the garage we had a screen sieve over a steel bucket where we inverted "drippies". This was back with the old cardboard cans and puncture spouts; a quick quart top off in the fuel lane left a lot in the can worth retrieving.
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At home OCI, I leave the jug inverted over the 710 fill hole funnel for a few mins as I am cleaning up. Good enough and into the recycling bin it goes.
Hermann
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Same, I don’t have time to worry about it
I invert my jug over another jug I keep for the drips. It sits on my workbench over night and the next day its "dry" as it can get. It adds up over time. Well worth the extra 30 seconds it takes me to set it up.
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I’ll tell you what, I work at a shop, and I see probably 50 containers a day thrown in the trash with a little bit of oil left in them...something like this would probably get me a whole quart of oil by the end of the week. And probably get me put into the loony bin, but I like it just the same!
Using an elaborate drain contraption is clever, but akin to turning shampoo bottles upside down in the shower...just to save a few cents worth of product. These days I just hold them upside down for a few sec. Besides, the used oil gets dumped back into the jug, which is taken to the recycle station; the few remaining drops of new oil gets recycled so it really isn't wasted!
Something like that would probably make sense. I just use one 5 quart jug once, maybe twice a year. For me it’s not worth the time.
Unless you are doing high volume like an oil change shop, I’m not sure how this would be worthwhile at all… I mean it is something to occupy your time I guess.
Look like your shop needs to get bulk oil drums - like yesterday,
In the shower I use shampoo until its almost out, then I place them upside down over night. That usually get 2-3 more uses out of them. Then, final step is to add a bit of hot water to the bottle, swish it around and use one last time. I can afford anything I need, I am just not wasteful any time I can avoid it. Its an ingrained behavior I learned as a child of depression era kids.
The big saver is getting my wife to invert the laundry detergent jug as its nearly empty. Since its highly concentrated, its has lots of washes left.
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