Recycling of wastes containing mercury
Mercury is still a useful raw material, used in many areas of life. Our company’s main aim is the recovery of elemental mercury and the avoidance of mercury emissions. The collection and acquisition of these wastes enables us to process them in an environmentally safe manner by applying our modern technologies.
Examples of mercury-containing wastes:
Switches, thermometers, rectifiers, manometers, ion-exchangers, mercury-containing sludges, filter cakes, filter residues, decomposer graphite, wastewater filter sludge, construction and demolition wastes, filter candles.
These waste types are exclusively transported and warehoused in approved containers, for example, plastic barrels, steel drums, big-bags.
EWC* Type of waste (EWC = European Waste Code)
060404 - Wastes containing mercury
050701 - Wastes containing mercury
We use three methods to process the waste types mentioned above:
- Manual recovery — construction parts, devices
- Vacuum-Dry-Mixer — sludges containing mercury, filter cakes
- Revolving-Kiln-Distillation — dry wastes
The plants are approved by the District Government of Düsseldorf, Germany, in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act (Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz).