Mercury Recycling Limited services

A new service for enlightened businesses. Available throughout the UK, The Lampsafe 48-Hour collection and delivery service* is a one-price recycling service.  We deliver a specially designed container for your spent fluorescent tubes and when full, you simply call us to collect. It could not be easier. The price includes rental of LS100 container, delivery, collection, recycling and full duty of care certification. Approximate capacity for 1inch fluorescent tubes is 150 x 6ft  or 450 x 2ft tubes.  If requested full containers will be replaced with empty containers at time of collection.

A new service for enlightened businesses. Available throughout the UK, The Bulbsafe 48-Hour collection and delivery service is a one-price recycling service. We deliver a specially designed container for your spent Compact Fluorescent, 2Ds, PLL, Halogens and Mercury Vapour Lamps. When full you simply call us to collect. It could not be easier. The price includes rental of container, delivery, collection, recycling and Hazardous Waste certification. Approximate capacity 300 mixed bulbs. For smaller lamps the quantity will be greater. The dimensions of the container are 1ft x 1ft x 2ft. If requested full containers will be replaced with empty containers at time of collection.

The Mercury from 1 single Fluorescent Tube is enough to pollute 30,000 Litres of Water beyond the safe drinking level in the UK. Fluorescent Tubes contain in general 94% Glass, 4% Ferrous and Non ferrous metals, and 2% Phosphor Powder, It is within this phosphor powder that the most hazardous element is contained- Mercury. The Environment Agency has therefore determined that Fluorescent Tubes are now classified as Hazardous Waste in England and Wales , as Special Waste by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), and therefore should preferably be recycled or if absolutely necessary, taken to specific landfill sites which can cater for mercury bearing wastes. The actual number of sites in the UK that can cater for such waste is very limited and, given high transportation and disposal costs nowadays, this makes recycling of your Fluorescent Tubes and Lamps the most economical and environmentally friendly option.

Mercury Recycling Ltd specialise in the decontamination of mercury bearing equipment, decontamination consultancy of land and premises and are a leading player in the supply and recycling of elemental mercury. We provide mercury at levels of purity from 3N (99.98%) to 5N (99.999%). A number of sectors are currently using our mercury in their products and applications including the lighting industry (for lamps and tubes) and university laboratories. One of the most comprehensive services provided by Mercury Recycling Ltd is our Flasksafe Service whereby we deliver elemental mercury or collect contaminated mercury from clients in UN approved containers. The Landfill Directive introduced in July 2004 makes it almost impossible to legally dump mercury or mercury contaminated products in the UK, resulting in a massive growth in our mercury recycling and land / premises decontamination consultancy services.

The UK depends on Son and Sox sodium discharge lamps for the bulk of its street and highway lighting. In addition this form of lighting is used in many other external and internal applications such as site illumination and high bay warehouse and factory lighting. This is because these lamps offer the most cost effective method of satisfactorily illuminating such areas.