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Ten things you have to know about: Waste King's fluorescent bulb recycling process

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Ten things you should know about: Waste King's fluorescent bulb recycling process


Fluorescent lightbulbs are the most efficient and long lasting lightbulbs today accessible. With the move toward more energy efficiency and environmental duty, fluorescent lights are becoming more common fixtures worldwide. Below are some of the significant matters which you must know about Fluorescent lightbulbs:


Waste King's nine-step fluorescent bulb recycling process is:


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 accumulated and taken to Waste King's website for sorting.


The container is placed in the site storage area to await processing.


The lamps are loaded by waste skip hire dunstable King for processing in separationplant and a crush.


The plant is fully automatic. It allows processing of sizes and the various sorts of lamps, splitting 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, thereby preventing mercury from being released into the environment as exhaust air (which will be always eliminated through the internal carbon filters).


Separation plant and the entire crush is comprised 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 the glass and metal are removed. The glass and metal parts are then crushed farther 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 into a discharge conveyor to transfer the by product out of the processing unit.


The air stream that's 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.


Recovered glass, aluminium and metals are sent to other companies for use 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, accumulate the the entire procedure and the container continues.


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