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Put them in s jar of water and throw that out, but basically anything other than crumpling them up and leaving them on a workshop floor mixed up with plane shavings will do.
When linseed oil off gases there is an exothermic chemical reaction. This is enough to ignite a rag that is covered in oil if the rag in question is crumpled up.
Bobbo
Same on my tung oil can... Not sure wtf you're supposed to do with the rags but I hung mine on the washing line outside until they got rained on and dried out again.