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On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 16:02 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
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Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Argh. I realize all too well that flourescents are hazardous waste. The
> problemo is that there is no simple way for a private individual to get
> rid of them legally.
There is a guy over in Kennesaw who will recycle them. I've not made my
way over there yet as I'm collecting a few first. You have to contact
him to make sure he's there to drop them off.
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I would be surprised if more than a quarter of the bulbs are properly disposed by most people. Most probably will throw them out in their trash that goes to the non-hazardous landfill.
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> -- CHS
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:42 AM, planas <<A HREF="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</A>
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> Hi
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> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 09:35 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> On 8/5/11 12:47 AM, Sparr wrote:
>> > I've recently come into possession of a large security disintegrator,
>> > designed for shredding things like hard drives and tapes and such. I'm
>> > trying to figure out what to do with it. Selling it is, of course, an
>> > option, but I was thinking of possibly starting up a small security
>> > business to destroy hard drives for people. Is there a market for that
>> > in Atlanta?
>> It would make a big difference if your apparatus of mindless destruction
>> were mobile. But you are going to have a waste stream like nobody's
>> business; some of that will be leaded solder, which is toxic. One thing
>> you could certainly do without too much difficulty would be to separate
>> out the ground-up magnets; run the refuse past a piece of iron that gets
>> scraped off periodically. I don't know what all the composition of disk
>> drive magnets would be in the field - I'd suspect samarium cobalt and
>> neodymium. What you recover could potentially be press-formed into
>> fairly decent magnets, suitable for electricity generation, but as far
>> as actually separating out the metals into bulk material with a net
>> positive value, I dunno.
>>
>> Possessing this device only makes sense if it's actively being used, so,
>> congratulations on having entered the waste processing business! :)
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> Once you grind up the hard drive you could attempt to recover the
> metals present using a combination of physical and chemical methods.
> The metals should be a reasonable purity to sell .
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> If limited metal recovery is done you probably will have D- series
> (unless the EPA has a specific classification) hazardous waste. I do
> not know the current prices for hazardous waste disposal. But when I
> was handling waste disposal I found there was roughly a 10x
> difference between the charges of non-hazardous waste and a
> hazardous waste.
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> Off topic stupidity, most people do not realize that fluorescent
> lights should be disposed as a hazardous waste - mercury is the culprit.
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