First country in South Asia to recycle compact fluorescent lamps

First country in South Asia to recycle compact fluorescent lamps - Srilanka

Sri Lanka is setting an example at a time when developing countries are grappling with the safe disposal of compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). Pitipana, a small hamlet 35 kilometers from Colombo, is home to Asia Recycling, South Asia's first CFL recycling plant. Orange Electric, which has a 48 percent local market share in CFLS, owns the plant.

The plant can recycle up to 30 million CFLs each year, which is approximately three times the yearly usage in Sri Lanka. The plant was built in collaboration with Swedish recycling company Nordic Recycling AB.

The facility collects CFL trash from banks, schools, and universities, as well as enterprises, hospitals, and government offices. CFL garbage should be disposed of at specified collection centers by households.

CFLs are gathered and assembled at the Pitipana factory before being recycled. The recycling process involves fifteen individuals. The components of a CFL are first manually separated. The mercury recovery technology (MRT) machine, which was purchased from Sweden, is then used to process the CFL trash. This garbage is broken down into plastic, metal, and glass fractions by the machine. A second tumbling cycle is performed on the mercury-containing glass (see 'Bulb breakdown').

The final stage is to extract mercury, which is the most dangerous component in a CFL. To keep mercury stable in CFLs, it is now generally held in an amalgamated solid form combined with phosphorous powder. To prevent evaporation, the mercury is stored in barrels at temperatures below 25° Celsius. It's shipped to Germany, which is the only country with mercury recycling technology, to be used in new CFLs. The remainder of the material collected is sold to recyclers.

The cost of treating a single bulb is around LKR 25-30.

Every month, Asia Recycling receives and recycles 100,000 to 150,000 CFLs..

- SRI LANKA for a reason

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