Fluorescent bulbs are the most efficient and resilient lightbulbs now available. With the move toward more energy efficiency and environmental responsibility, fluorescent lights are becoming more common fixtures globally. Below are some of the important matters that you have to understand about Fluorescent lightbulbs:
Waste King's nine-step fluorescent bulb recycling process is:
The approximate capacity for one inch fluorescent tubes, of a coffin, is 150 x 6feet or 450 x 2ft tubes.
Prior to being recycled the container with the spent lamps is accumulated and taken to Waste King's site for sorting.
For processing in a puppy love and separationplant waste King loads the lamps onto racked trolleys.
The plant is fully automatic. It enables processing of the various kinds and sizes of lamps, splitting them into aluminium end caps, soda lime glass, lead glass /ferrous metal parts and phosphor powder.
The crush and sieve plant works at sub-pressure, thus preventing mercury from being released into the surroundings as exhaust air (which can be always discharged skip hire high wycombe through the internal carbon filters).
Separation plant and the whole crush is included in a container where a conveyor feeds the tubes into a hammer mill. The resultant combined fractions are air-conveyed through a separation tower, where metal and the glass are removed. The glass and metal components are then crushed further and air-conveyed to a second separation tower. Glass caused by the sieving operation (after the first separation tower) is smashed farther and air-conducted through a third separation tower. The glass fragments are fed to a rotary drum-feeder and transferred into a discharge conveyor to transfer the by-product out of the processing unit.
The air stream that has passed through the separation towers comprises phosphor powder.
This air stream passes through a cyclone, where the powder is gathered in a distiller barrel, and after that passes through two dust filters, where the remaining dust is removed and deposited in distiller barrels. The air stream then passes through four- carbon filters to remove any mercury vapour before passing into the atmosphere via a combined vent.
Aluminium, recovered glass and metals are sent to other companies to be used as raw materials or for additional processing.
Every time a customer has filled a ‘coffin' with fluorescent tubes that are spent, Waste King's operatives will arrive, gather the the entire procedure and the container continues.
