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Lamp recycle
February 1st 2008 Balcan has produced a new
multi-purpose recycling plant
capable of processing all kinds
and sizes of both whole and precrushed
lamps.
The recycler (MPC4000) was
developed from the company's
original design which won the
Queen's Award for Enterprise in
2006 . When mounted in lamp
collection vehicles they allow up
to five times more lamps to be
carried when pre-crushed and
loaded in vehicles than when
lamps remain whole. Capable of
accepting both whole and precrushed
lamps fed from 45-gallon
drums, which can hold an
average of 600 x 4ft fluorescent
tubes or their equivalent at an
approximate rate of 8 drums per
hour, the MPC4000 separates
clean glass cullet from the
debris.At the same time, the
mercury bearing phosphor
powder is drawn through filters
including one containing
activated carbon to remove the
mercury vapour from the air so it
can be exhausted safely to the
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