Exhausted lubricant oil recovery is growing in Italy: 188,000 tons were collected in 2024 compared to 183,000 in 2023 (and 181,000 in 2022), despite a 2% drop in the market, concentrated in the industrial sector: this is 48.5% of the amount released for consumption. Regeneration of collected material was confirmed at 98%, in a context where the EU average stops at 61%. Of the 188 thousand tons collected, 185 thousand were in fact sent to regeneration, 2,400 to waste-to-energy, and 200 to thermal destruction. These are the numbers from the Sustainability Report of CONOU, the consortium for recycling lubricating oils, a product that allows combustion engines to function. More than 56% of the total collected came from northern Italy, with Lombardy (21%) topping the list of producing regions, followed by Veneto (11%). The closing of the lubricating oil cycle was achieved through the work of 58 dealers who collected spent material from 103,000 producers: 12% from industrial sources and 88% from machine shops.