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 Lamp Crushing You should make the following considerations. First of all you should realise that whilst at the end of 2003 there are 250 sites in the UK which have hazardous waste classification and can accept sacks of crushed waste did you know that under the Landfill Directive in July 2004 this figure will reduce the sites legislated to accept hazardous waste to only 10 sites in the whole of the UK. These sites are generally based in the northern parts of the UK and we are told there are none in the southern regions. We have seen correspondence from the Environment Agency to a UK waste company stating that it is likely that anyone using a lamp-crushing machine will need to operate a Waste Management License at every site where lamps are crushed. This will cost thousands of pounds each year to maintain. Companies who buy a crushing machine are often told that the operating staff must wear protective glasses, gloves and facemasks. Why do you think that this is? Many of Lampcare's clients have previously operated crushing machines in times when lamps were classified as a non hazardous waste stream. However upon seeing lamps become hazardous waste they removed the processing by their staff especially when they found that it is actually less expensive to recycle than it is to crush lamps. Add up the cost of a crushing machine, the price of waste sacks, the cost of disposal and then the labour to operate such a machine and you will quickly abandon the idea and send your lamps for full recycling.       |
