Ten things you should know about: Waste King’s fluorescent bulb recycling procedure
Fluorescent bulbs are the best and resilient lightbulbs accessible today. With the move toward more energy efficiency and environmental duty, fluorescent lights are becoming more common fixtures worldwide. Below are some of the things that are important which you need to know 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.
The container with the spent lamps taken and is accumulated to Waste King’s website for sorting, prior to being recycled.
For processing in a crush and separationplant waste King loads the lamps onto racked trolleys.
It allows processing of the various types and sizes of lamps, splitting them into phosphor powder, aluminium end caps, lead glass /ferrous metal parts and soda lime glass.
The crush and sieve Skip Hire Rickmansworth plant operates at sub-pressure, thus preventing mercury from being released into the surroundings as exhaust air (which can be always eliminated through the internal carbon filters).
The whole puppy love and separation plant is incorporated in a container in which a conveyor feeds the tubes into a hammer mill. The resulting fractions that are combined are air-carried through a separation tower, where metal and the glass are removed. The glass and metal parts are subsequently crushed farther and air-conveyed to another 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, removed by the third separation tower, 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 collected in a distiller barrel, and then passes through two dust filters, where the remaining dust deposited in distiller barrels and is removed. The air stream then passes through four- carbon filters to remove any mercury vapour before passing into the atmosphere via a port that is combined.
Aluminium, recovered glass and metals are sent to other companies to be used as raw materials or for further processing.
Every time a customer has filled a ‘coffin’ with fluorescent tubes that are spent, Waste King’s operatives will arrive, gather the the whole procedure and the container continues.