Fluorescent lightbulbs are the most efficient and long lasting bulbs available today. With the move toward more energy efficiency and environmental duty, fluorescent lights have become more common fixtures globally. Below are some of the things that are significant that you have to know about Fluorescent lightbulbs:
Waste King's nine-step fluorescent bulb recycling process is:
Waste King delivers a specially constructed container – known colloquially, as a ‘coffin' - to the customer's premises for the safe collection and storage of spent lamps. The approximate capacity for one inch fluorescent tubes, of a coffin, is 150 x 6feet or 450 x 2ft tubes.
The container with the spent lamps taken and is collected to Waste King's website for sorting, prior to being recycled.
The lamps are loaded by waste King onto racked trolleys for processing in separationplant and a crush.
The plant is fully automatic. It enables processing of sizes and the various types of lamps, splitting them into soda lime glass, aluminium end caps, lead glass /ferrous metal components and phosphor powder.
The crush and sieve plant works at sub-pressure, thus preventing mercury from being released into the environment as exhaust air (which will be always discharged through the internal carbon filters).
Separation plant and the entire crush is included in a container in which a conveyor feeds the tubes to some hammer mill. The ensuing fractions that are joined are air-conducted through a separation tower, where metal and the glass are removed. The glass and metal parts are then crushed further and air-conveyed to another separation tower. Glass caused by the sieving operation (after the first separation tower) is smashed farther and air-conveyed through a third separation tower. The glass fragments, removed by the third separation tower, are fed to a rotary drum-feeder and transferred to your discharge conveyor to transfer the by-product from the processing unit.
The air stream that has passed through the separation towers includes phosphor powder.
The air stream then passes through four- before passing into the atmosphere via a combined vent carbon filters to remove any skip hire oxford mercury vapour.
Aluminium, recovered glass and metals are sent to other businesses to be used as raw materials or for additional processing.
Every time a ‘coffin' has filled with spent fluorescent tubes, Waste King's operatives will arrive, gather the container and whole process continues.
