When you are looking to dispose of your used fluorescent light bulbs you have two options. One option is to manually package them and send them off to the landfill. While this method seems like the most logical, it is actually the most time consuming and dangerous. It is dangerous as handling glass lamps has resulted in many injuries due to the lamps breaking in the workers hands. And it is very time consuming as it can take a very long time to pack out hundreds of fluorescent light bulbs.
The best way is the light bulb grinder
The best method to dispose of spent bulbs is to use the Fluorescent Light Bulb Grinder. This grinder will shred the bulbs into thousands of tiny pieces which then collect in the drum below the unit. This method of disposal eliminates the risk of injury, helps the environment by capturing the mercury, and saves you the expense of packing the lamps and using up a lot of man hours to perform the packing.
How does the fluorescent bulb grinder work?
The fluorescent lamp grinder is a crushing machine that smashes spent fluorescent lamps into tiny fragments. These tiny fragments are then collected in the 55-gallon drum below the unit which can then be easily removed for disposal. Once the drum is full, you simply un-mount the grinder from the drum and move it to an empty one. Each drum will hold about 1350 T8 4′ bulbs which is a huge storage savings versus storing and moving those bulbs in boxes.
The fluorescent lamp grinder can handle u-shaped lamps in addition to the standard straight bulbs. In addition, the system features an advanced filtration system which captures all of the harmful mercury vapor that is contained inside of the bulbs. This vapor collection both meets, and exceeds the OSHA and the EPA requirements.
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