Akon allows you to have an alternative to traditional fluorescent light tube disposal methods which include carefully packaging the light bulbs into boxes. Our disposal machine allows you the benefit of reducing this labor intensive practice and also saves you money in the process.
By crushing your fluorescent light tubes at your facility you can GREATLY reduce the storage space that they take up and save on the labor and material that they require to manually package.
It is illegal to dispose of fluorescent light bulbs in Michigan by simply discarding them into the trash. You must follow the Michigan laws which are in place to protect the health and safety of you and your fellow citizens. In fact, if you are caught improperly disposing of light bulbs in Michigan, you can face a serious fine.
There are only a few methods which you can use for your fluorescent lamp disposal based on the latest laws and regulations. One option is to contract with a recycling company to haul away your spent lamps for disposal once you collect many boxes of them which you have to store until you amass a large collection of them. Or, you can use an Akon onsite crusher which will shred the lamps into tiny bits that collect in standard fifty five gallon drums. Each drum will hold up to about 1350 crushed bulbs and will take up a fraction of the space of the traditional “box and store” method.
There are many different types of fluorescent light tubes used in offices and facilities around the United States. While the type of light tubes used varies based upon the type of building and their lighting needs, one constant remains. There are often hundreds of thousands of bulbs which need to be replaced and disposed of. To make matters worse, each of these light tubes contains some amount of mercury-containing calcium phosphate powder. The amount of mercury within each of these light tubes varies upon their brightness, size, and the supplier. The problem is that disposing of this many lamps will result in injuries, storage costs, disposal costs, and pollution of the atmosphere.
There are several methods that you can use to dispose of fluorescent light bulbs. One method, is to package all of you are spent fluorescent light bulbs into cardboard boxes and have them shipped to recycling facilities where they are crushed and recycled. This option of course is viable for anyone who has only a few spent bulbs which they are looking to dispose of. However, if you have a facility which has hundreds if not thousands of light bulbs which need to be replaced on a fairly frequent basis this option will be very expensive.
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We are a supplier of glass bottle crushers which are used by bars, restaurants, taverns, nightclubs, and any other facility which has to dispose of empty bottles. With the use of our bottle at crusher, your bottle storage volume will go down by 80%. Depending on the model that you purchase, you can store hundreds of crushed bottles In one container.
Akon supplies restaurants, hotels, bars, and taverns with beer bottle crushers which decreases the amount of storage space required to store empty bottles. In addition to freeing up space that would otherwise be wasted on storage, the beer bottle crusher also saves on labor. For instance, a bartender that has to run empty bottles back to the storage room is wasting valuable time that should be spent at the bar serving customers.
The beer bottle crusher can be installed under the counter which is near the bartender. This allows for rapid crushing of empty beer bottles, liquor bottles, wine bottles, and even champagne bottles. Since the crusher is located under the counter, it stays out of sight and out of the customers view.
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Akon provides customers with our fluorescent light bulb crushing machine as these bulbs are common in millions of offices and manufacturing facilities around the country. Actually, this style of lighting is now the most common form of lighting used in the United States, which means that there are millions upon millions of these bulbs which require disposal each year. These bulbs come in many shapes and sizes and are often times very difficult to manually package for disposal. With that need, the fluorescent light bulb crushing machine was developed to handle these delicate bulbs.
Using the Akon fluorescent light disposal machine results in many environmental benefits by reducing pollution that results from broken fluorescent lights. Mercury is a toxic metal that is a critical component of all fluorescent lights that are produced today. When these lamps break, as a result of packing, storing, transporting or disposal, the majority of the mercury is released into the atmosphere. This mercury is then inhaled by any human who is within close range of the breakage. In addition, mercury accidentally released from broken lamps can get into the water system and then into the fish and water that we eat and drink.
