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.
Fluorescent Light Disposal Machine Info
The machine can handle several types of fluorescent light tubes such as straight two, four, five, and eight-foot tubes, "U" shaped tubes, T-8, T-12, and T-17 tubes. In fact, the crusher can handle just about any length of light bulb. The speed of the crush is also very fast, in just 1 second a 48” bulb is completely pulverized. This happens at such a fast speed due to the use of the onboard vacuum which sucks the bulb in at a very fast rate. The vacuum also prevents any of the toxic mercury from floating out of the entry chute where the bulb is fed into.
The complete process from beginning to end
Step 1: The spent lamp is removed from the fixture, very carefully of course to prevent breakage.
Step 2: The lamp is walked over to the machine by the operator. He also ensures that the feeding chute has the correct diameter attachment installed.
Step 3: The operator carefully lowers the bulb into the fluorescent light tube disposal machine where it is sucked in by the vacuum.
Step 4: The light tube enters the machine and it is quickly shredded by a spinning head, not much different than that of a weed trimmer.
Step 5: The crushed bulb pieces falls to the bottom of the 55 gallon drum while the unsafe vapors and dust is forced into the 3 stage filter which removes 99.99% of the harmful vapors. Once filtered, clean air exhausts the machine into the atmosphere, much like that of a shop vacuum.
You can see that operating the machine is as simple as simply dropping light tubes into the machine. Once the drums are filled, you simply call Akon and we will connect you with a local recycler who will take the filled drum to their recycling facility.
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