Our Queen's Award winning fluorescent tube, lamp & bulb recycling plant designed and manufactured by Balcan, allows us to offer you the complete lamp recycling service to accept either whole or crushed lamps - to comply with WEEE regulations.  Our Queen's Award winning fluorescent tube, lamp & bulb recycling facility produces some of the cleanest glass possible and is considered to be the cleanest in the UK and one of the cleanest in Europe.

As well as this mercury lamp recycling service, Balcan continues to manufacture and service their range of fluorescent tube & sodium lamp crushers and offers their renowned On-Site CompleteCrush & Lamp Recycling service with all waste lamps being processed through our lamp recycling plant.

 

As with all fluorescent tube and mercury lamp recycling plants, lamps need to be crushed before they can be further processed. The Balcan lamp recycling plant has been designed to accept both whole and precrushed lamps of all kinds and sizes, which gives us the advantage over those lamp recycling plant manufacturers.

Once crushed, the lamp debris is fed into a uniquely designed agitator unit that loosens the mercury bearing phosphor powder, adhering to the glass.

During this process, the mercury bearing dusty air generated inside the unit, is continually drawn off to a filter unit that removes and collects the powder.  Air exhausted from this filter is then further cleaned by passing through another larger and highly sophisticated filter, which removes the last traces of mercury vapour and other impurities before it is allowed to vent to atmosphere as clean air.

Meanwhile, cleaned recycled glass debris that constantly discharges from the agitator unit is then separated into its glass and metal/aluminum fractions, by passing over a powerful magnet from where it is collected into suitable containers ready for distribution to suitable markets.

The phosphor powder, which contains the mercury element of the gas discharge lamps, is stored in UN approved drums before dispatch to a highly reputable company who specialise in the recovery and recycling of mercury. Balcan believe the best economies are achieved by employing this third party who handle this type of material in great quantities, rather than undertaking this expensive and hazardous process ourselves.

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