Fluorescent bulbs are the most effective and long lasting bulbs today accessible. With the move toward more energy efficiency and environmental responsibility, fluorescent lights are getting to be more common fixtures worldwide. Below are some of the matters that are important which you should know about Fluorescent lightbulbs:
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 for one inch fluorescent tubes, is 150 x 6feet or 450 x 2ft tubes.
The container with the lamps that were spent is collected and taken to Waste King's website for sorting.
The lamps are loaded by waste King onto trolleys that are racked for processing in separationplant and a crush.
The plant is fully automatic. It allows processing of the various kinds and sizes of lamps, separating them into phosphor powder, aluminium end caps, lead glass /ferrous metal parts and soda lime glass.
The crush and sieve plant functions at sub-pressure, therefore preventing mercury from being released into the surroundings as exhaust air (which is continuously eliminated through the internal carbon filters).
The entire crush and separation plant is included in a container in which a conveyor feeds the tubes to a hammer mill. The resultant fractions that are joined are air-carried through a separation tower, where the glass and metal are removed. The glass and metal parts are subsequently crushed further and air-conveyed to another separation tower. The glass fragments, removed by the third separation tower, 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.
This air stream passes through a cyclone, where the powder is collected in a distiller barrel, and after that passes through two dust filters, where the remaining dust deposited in distiller barrels and is removed. The air stream then passes through four- before passing into the atmosphere via a port that is combined carbon filters to remove any mercury vapour.
Aluminium recovered glass and metals metals are sent to other companies for use as raw materials or for further processing.
Every time a customer has filled a ‘coffin' with spent fluorescent tubes, Waste King's Skip Hire Beaconsfield operatives will arrive, accumulate the container and whole procedure continues.
