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SRT Processing Facility |
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The SRT Processing Facility, located at 906 Chase Drive in Johnson City, Tennessee is the centerpiece of SRT's mercury-containing bulb processing operations. This facility operates as a universal waste "Destination Facility" for treatment of mercury-containing lamps, but no storage of such recyclables occurs. Daily loads of lamps are received from the SRT Johnson City Receiving Facility and crushed in a specially designed, totally enclosed machine. The special crushing machine, which has been in operation since 1996, produces three separate, recyclable component byproducts: phosphor powder, crushed glass, and metal scrap. The phosphor powder is directly fed from the lamp crusher into an integrated mercury retort furnace where 99+% of the mercury is removed from the powder and recovered as elemental mercury. The recovered mercury is sold for triple distillation and reused on the mercury market. The treated phosphor powder (basically calcium phosphate), along with the crushed glass and scrap metal byproducts of crushing, are not contaminated by mercury at levels of regulatory concern. All three of these material streams are also recycled. The treated phosphor powder is transported to a local manufacturer of concrete products for use as aggregate, the crushed glass is transported to a local asphalt plant for use as asphalt aggregate, and the scrap metal (e.g., aluminum ends) are transported to a local metals reclamation facility for recycling. |
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SRT offers the safe, smart alternative to meeting your requirements for the handling of spent fluorescent, H.I.D. bulbs and ballasts. For more information regarding Southeast Recycling Technologies' important service offerings, please contact us today: |
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