Fluorescent lightbulbs are the most effective and resilient lightbulbs available now. With the move toward more energy efficiency and environmental duty, fluorescent lights have become more common fixtures globally. Below are some of the important things that you need to understand about Fluorescent bulbs:
Waste King's nine-step fluorescent bulb recycling process is:
Waste King delivers a specially designed container – known colloquially, 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 6feet or 450 x 2ft tubes.
Prior to being recycled, the container with the spent lamps is gathered and taken to Waste King's website for sorting.
For processing in a crush and separationplant waste King loads the lamps onto trolleys that are racked.
The plant is fully automatic. It allows processing of the various types and sizes of lamps, dividing them into aluminium end caps, soda lime glass, lead glass /ferrous metal components and phosphor powder.
The crush and sieve plant works 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).
Separation plant and the whole puppy love is included in a container where the tubes are fed by a conveyor to some hammer mill. The resulting combined fractions are air-carried through a separation tower, where the glass and metal are removed. The glass and metal parts are subsequently smashed farther and air-conveyed to a second separation tower. The glass fragments are Skip Hire Milton Keynes fed to a rotary drum-feeder and transferred to your discharge conveyor to transfer the byproduct from the processing unit.
The air stream that's passed through the separation towers comprises phosphor powder.
The air stream then passes through four- before passing into the atmosphere via a combined vent carbon filters to remove any mercury vapour.
Found glass, aluminium and metals are sent to other companies for use as raw materials or for additional processing.
Every time a ‘coffin' has filled with spent fluorescent tubes, Waste King's operatives will arrive, collect the container and entire procedure continues.
