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Fluorescent Tube Recycling Services

Fluorescent Tube Recycling throughout the UK

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While some companies will offer basic recycling or ‘lamp disposal’, Waste King provides a sophisticated yet cost-effective Mercury Recycling Service – using an in-house distillation process – that offers true ‘closed loop recycling’. Recycling fluorescent tubes and lamps via this Service can be the most economical, ethical and environmentally safe option available.

In England and Wales, The Environment Agency has classified fluorescent tubes as hazardous waste. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has classified fluorescent tubes as Special Waste. This is because the mercury from just one fluorescent tube is enough to pollute 30,000 litres of water beyond the UK’s safe drinking level.

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Fluorescent Tube Recycling Details

Fluorescent Tube Recycling within the UK

Typically, fluorescent tubes contain 94% glass, 4% ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and 2% phosphor powder. The mercury in the tube is contained within this phosphor powder. Waste King is one of the few companies in the UK that distils and recovers the mercury from this phosphor powder.

Ideally, fluorescent tubes should be recycled or, if this isn’t possible, taken to specific landfill sites which can cater for mercury bearing wastes. The number of these sites in the UK is small and, given the current high transportation and disposal costs, recycling fluorescent tubes and lamps not only makes economic sense but it’s also the most environmentally friendly option.

Apart from the environmentally-friendly aspect to recycling fluorescent tubes and lamps, it’s also vital to do so for your health and safety and the health and safety of your employees. For example, someone who attempts to dispose of a fluorescent tube in a skip not only is condemning the whole skip’s contents to be hazardous waste – which has costly consequences for its safe disposal – but is also exposed to the potential dangers of broken glass and the inhalation of small amounts of the toxic materials that are released as dust and vapour.

Waste King’s Mercury Recycling process involves separating each fluorescent tube’s and discharge lamp’s individual components – and recovering them for recycling or re-use in a variety of industries. Moreover, using its Superior Distiller, Waste King can purify the mercury into various grades – for reuse in various industries. Currently, Waste King sends its recovered mercury to two of the UK’s major lamp manufacturers where it’s used in making new lamps – thereby closing the loop.

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We remove waste, rubbish and unwanted items from commercial premises, construction sites and domestic houses and gardens. Our service includes a two man team who are insured and licensed to load the waste materials – from anywhere on the property – onto our trucks, sweep up after the job is complete and transport the waste to a registered transfer station.

We do all the loading and sweep up afterwards and generally it is cheaper!

We charge by weight or volume where as Skip Hire is charged on the size of the skip and not the amount of waste that is put into it. Skips can cause the added hassle and expense of having to apply for a skip permit in advance and you run the risk of fly tipping into the skip.

Yes, Our rates are based on the amount and type of waste being removed. Please give us as much and as accurate information as possible about the waste you want removed so that we can quote you correctly. Upon arrival on site, our collections team will provide and obligation free quote, and they will only start work once you agree on the quote.

Yes. Our teams are supplied with safety boots and branded clothing. A spare set is always in the truck so they are clean and presentable for the next collection.

Most waste is recycled or reused. The items are sorted and disposed of in a way that is least damaging to the environment. We give items to charity shops, or it is taken to specialist recycling facilities.

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