the new environmental protection law is not illegal to collect waste oil, and it is illegal to buy waste engine oil without a license.

those who engage in the business activities of collecting, storing and disposing of hazardous wastes without a business license or not in accordance with the provisions of the business license will be confiscated and fined, which will cause serious environmental pollution accidents, resulting in heavy losses of public and private property or serious consequences of personal injury and death, which will constitute an environmental pollution crime and will be investigated for criminal responsibility. Be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the consequences are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.

Environmental protection refers to all human activities that use the theories and methods of environmental science to coordinate the relationship between human beings and the environment, solve various problems and protect and improve the environment. Including administrative, legal, economic, scientific and technological measures, rational use of natural resources to prevent environmental pollution and destruction, in order to maintain and develop ecological balance, expand the reproduction of useful natural resources, and ensure the development of human society. Environmental protection involves a wide range and strong comprehensiveness. It involves many fields of natural science and social science, as well as its unique research object.

Environmental protection also means that human beings consciously protect natural resources and make rational use of them to prevent the natural environment from being polluted and destroyed; The polluted and destroyed environment must be comprehensively treated to create an environment suitable for human life and work.

article 339 of the criminal law of the people's Republic of China, who, in violation of state regulations, dumps, piles up or disposes of solid waste from abroad, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; Whoever causes a major environmental pollution accident, causing heavy losses to public or private property or seriously endangering human health, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the consequences are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 11 years and fined. Whoever imports solid waste as raw materials without the permission of the relevant competent authorities in the State Council, causing major environmental pollution accidents and causing heavy losses to public or private property or serious harm to human health, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the consequences are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined. Whoever imports solid waste, liquid waste and gaseous waste that cannot be used as raw materials in the name of raw material utilization shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 152 of this Law.