Fluorescent bulbs are the most efficient and long lasting lightbulbs today accessible. With the move toward more energy efficiency and environmental responsibility, fluorescent lights are becoming more common fixtures globally. Below are some of the important things that you have to know about Fluorescent lightbulbs:
Waste King's nine-step fluorescent bulb recycling procedure is:
Waste King delivers a specially constructed container – known as a ‘coffin' - to the customer's premises for the safe collection and storage of spent lamps. The approximate capacity of a coffin, for one inch fluorescent tubes, is 150 x 6ft or 450 x 2ft tubes.
The container with the spent lamps is gathered and taken to Waste King's site for sorting.
For processing in a puppy love and separationplant waste King loads the lamps.
It allows processing of sizes and the various types of lamps, dividing them into lead glass /ferrous metal components, aluminium end caps, soda lime glass and phosphor powder.
The crush and sieve plant operates at sub-pressure, therefore preventing mercury from being released into the environment as exhaust air (which can be constantly eliminated through the internal carbon filters).
The whole crush and separation plant is featured in a container by which the tubes are fed by a conveyor into a hammer mill. The resultant joined fractions are air-conveyed through a separation tower, where metal and the glass are removed. The glass and metal parts are then crushed farther and air-conveyed to a second separation tower. Glass resulting from the sieving operation (after the first separation tower) is crushed further and air-conducted through a third separation tower. The glass fragments are fed to a rotary drum-feeder and transferred to a discharge conveyor to transfer the by-product out of the processing unit.
The air stream that has passed through the separation towers contains phosphor powder.
The air stream then passes through four- carbon filters to remove any mercury vapour before passing Skip Hire Bicester into the atmosphere via a combined vent.
Aluminium, found glass and metals are sent to other firms to be used as raw materials or for further processing.
Every time a ‘coffin' has filled with spent fluorescent tubes, Waste King's operatives will arrive, gather the container and whole process continues.
