Balcan Lamp Recycling products

Balcan brought the world the first commercial lamp and bulb crusher in 1980.  We are now pleased to be able to offer you the Balcan Lamp Recycling Plant.

With LED bulbs now beginning to come through the waste stream in higher numbers, it is important you position your current lamp recycling business to be able to deal with these types.

Balcan now have specific entry systems on their equipment to deal with crushed, straights, compacts and plastic sleeved lamps and the output in terms of all recovered materials is among the best that I have seen.

The larger Balcan MP6000 unit again is dual loading.  Having an extra section which acts as a reservoir, allows for greater volumes to be processed.  The Balcan MP6000 will handle 2000-3000 linear tubes per hour along with other types of lamps.  The MP6000 is also available with a conveyor feed for linear fluorescent tubes. 

With most of the world moving towards CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) lighting in place of the incandescent light bulb, this means that there will be many millions more mercury lamps and mercury bulbs requiring recycling at their EOL (end of life).

Balcan lamp recycling gives those the opportunity to choose for themselves whether to opt for the whole lamp & bulb recycling methodology, or the lamp crusher, or bulb crusher systems, to help reduce volume prior to transport of the waste to a lamp & bulb recycling facility.  It can be confusing trying to decide which system is best for you, best for the environment and equally best for being cost effective.

In 1980 Balcan manufactured the first commercial lamp crusher.  Today, Balcan Lamp Crushers are used extensively throughout the world, both manually & electrically operated they are used in all climates to help reduce volume and control the mercury emissions generated during crushing.  Without the use of this type of equipment we would have more mercury being emitted due to uncontrolled breakage.

Recycling plastic coated, shattershield & sleeved lamps still involves crushing the glass.  However, when you crush a plastic coated /shatterproof lamp the end result is usually crushed glass in a flattened tube.  It is therefore necessary to remove this prior to putting the lamp & bulbs into the recycler and this usually involves a person, with a knife, cutting the sleeving away, prior to the lamp being processed normally.  This method has a number of Health & Safety issues and is not ideal when lamps are already broken inside the sleeving.

With more countries passing laws to ban the old type of incandescent lightbulb if favour of the CFL (the mercury containing compact fluroescent lamp), the lightbulb which no one likes, there will be more mercury coming through our waste stream in the future when these are disposed of.