In Michigan you can not. In Ohio you can. Until it becomes "illegal" in Ohio there are those generators of used oil filters that will say "I'm going to keep on throwing them into a landfill." Others, more enlightened about sustainability, will not.
Beyond the scrap metal that can be recycled and/or used as a "sweetener" to dilute the residual content of the lower quality scrap at a steel mill, the used oil still trapped in the filter even after a hot drain can be recycled, rerefined and/or used for energy recovery in a furnace. Either way, from just one month from one used oil filter recycling center, that's 60,000+ gallons of used oil that doesn't get dumped onto the ground in a landfill. Looked at another way, that would be like dumping 1090, 55 gallon drums of oil in your own back yard.
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