Fluorecycle is an Illinois Corporation formed for the purpose of recycling hazardous fluorescent and HID Lamps, which have been designated universal waste by the EPA. We recycle the lamps to their component parts including the distillation and reclamation of the hazardous mercury. Our company is regulated by the USEPA and IEPA and we meet all of the standards set forth by these agencies. We use state-of-the-art equipment to process your lamps in an environmentally safe and legal manner.
The mercury cycle starts when mercury containing lamps (fluorescent and HID) are tossed into the general refuse. The trash is sent to a municipal landfill where exposed mercury leaches into the ground and ultimately our water supply. The fish and animals absorb the mercury and pass it up the food chain. Prolonged exposure to mercury can cause significant heatlth problems.Fluorecycle is dedicated to the protection of the environment and reduction of hazardous mercury waste to our landfills. Help us to help you, by recycling your mercury containing lamps with us, rather than depositing in a municipal landfill.
Benefits we can offer to satisfy your requirements
- We are the only company permitted by the IEPA to operate as a recycling destination facility.
- We perform the complete process of recycling your lamps including mercury distillation from the phosphor powder. We can certify that your lamps have been destroyed and the components recycled.
- We are RCRA Part B Permitted by the State of Illinois for Hazardous Waste Management.
- We carry $3 million of liability pollution insurance for our mutual protection.
- Our state-of-the-art MRT equipment separates your lamps into basic components of glass, aluminum, copper, phosphor powder and MERCURY. Everything can be recycled.
- We offer competitive pricing to allow you to meet your budgetary requirements.
- We can process your lamps in 24 hours with a current annual capacity of 14 million lamps.
- We can furnish packaging for transporting your spent lamps.
- We furnish proper labeling required by the IEPA to transport spent lamps.
- We track your lamps from pick-up to disposal.
- We can provide engineering services to meet your specialized requirements.
- We can host seminars to educate and train personnel for proper lamp disposal.
- We are members of the Illinois Recycling Association and Association of Lamp and Mercury Recyclers (ALMR).
- We offer bulk pickup of your lamps and all of your universal waste requirements.
- We offer a prepaid fluorescent lamp recycling program especially designed to give smaller commercial generators the ability to comply with the EPA regulations.
Fluorecycle has a range of offerings to meet your lamp recycling needs.
Our facility located in Ingleside, Il. meets the standards set by the Illinois EPA including:
- State of the art treatment including crushing, separating and retorting process equipment, which exceeds the IEPA standards for lamp destruction.
- Mercury distillation equipment.
- Sealed drum turning equipment for processing crushed lamps.
- Computerized documentation of recycling for your records.
- Friendly and helpful staff to answer your questions and process your order quickly.
- Prepaid recycling program for the convenience of small generators.
- Bulk pickup all of your universal waste requirements.
Our capabilities:
- IEPA approved Lamp Desruction Certification.
- Mercury recovery to 99.99% pure
- Capability to recycle all types of mercury containing lamps including fluorescent, HID, UV, CFL and specialty lamps.
- 99% of all lamp components are recycled back to industry.
- Ultra low emission to the environment.
OTHER SERVICES
In addition, Fluorecycle offers on-site lamp crushing equipment for sale. The equipment exceeds IEPA specifications when operated properly. We provide you a safe, reliable, economical volume reduction system that prepares the crushed glass for the recycling process. Here are some of the features of the equipment.
- Safely dispose of 4ft., 8ft., & U-shaped fluorescent lamps in a 55 gallon drum.
- Includes a 55 gallon drum, and 3 stage filtering system including activated carbon filter for the capture of mercury vapor.
- Drum capacity is approximately 700-900 4ft T12, 1500 T8 or equivalent type fluorescent lamps
- Recycling program to properly process each drum of crushed glass.
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