Are there any dangers in burning fluorescent tubes in EfW plants, as they contain mercury?
Fluorescent light tubes should be taken to HWRCs for recycling and appropriate treatment, and should not be put with black bag waste. Both CCC and SITA run waste awareness programmes encouraging residents to separate and recycle their waste. However if some fluorescent light tubes are mistakenly sent to the CERC, any mercury released would be vaporised and then trapped in the flue gas cleaning system and not released to the atmosphere. The air pollution control system consists of several stages, each designed to deal with different potential pollutants. The injection of activated carbon into the flue gas captures heavy metals such as mercury. The air pollution control residues (or fly ash) are kept separate, and sent to a licensed landfill out of county. Q Would by-products of burning household waste including batteries and fluorescent tubes be contained within the bottom ash, that would then be used for road aggregate? Any pollutants from burning waste such as batteries would be in th
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