Ten things you have to know about: Waste King’s fluorescent bulb recycling procedure
Fluorescent bulbs are the best and long lasting lightbulbs accessible now. 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 significant things which you need to understand about Fluorescent lightbulbs:
Waste King’s nine-step fluorescent bulb recycling process 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 6feet or 450 x 2ft tubes.
The container with the spent lamps taken and is collected to Waste King’s site for sorting.
The container is placed in the site storage area to await processing.
For processing in a puppy love and separationplant waste King loads the lamps onto trolleys that are racked.
The plant is fully automatic. It enables processing of sizes and the various kinds of lamps, separating them into lead glass /ferrous metal components, aluminium end caps, soda lime glass and phosphor powder.
The crush and sieve plant functions at sub-pressure, thus preventing mercury from being released into the surroundings as exhaust air (which is constantly discharged through the internal carbon filters).
The entire puppy love and separation plant is incorporated in a container where a conveyor feeds the tubes to a hammer mill. The resulting fractions that are joined 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 another 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’s passed through the separation towers comprises phosphor powder.
This air stream passes through a cyclone, where the powder is accumulated in a Skip Hire Brackley distiller barrel, and after that passes through two dust filters, where the remaining dust is removed and deposited in distiller barrels. 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.
Found glass, aluminium and metals are sent to other firms 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, collect the container and whole procedure continues.