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Veolia ES Technical Solutions – Tallahassee, FL facility
Veolia Environmental Services’ (VES) Tallahassee facility is located in the northwest corner of a 27-acre industrial park. The building has 10,000 square feet processing and office space. The building is used to receive and process lamps for distillation/recycling. There are separate rooms for lamp disassembly and distillation. These rooms are maintained under negative pressure.
VES has the ability to recycle fluorescent and High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps using a sophisticated and proven technology with a 17-year operating history. VES has the ability to provide complete on-site distillation which eliminates both the need for hazardous waste storage, and the shipment of hazardous waste from the facility. The facility is able to extract over 99% of the mercury from a lamp, and the recovered mercury is also over 99% pure.
VES is licensed as a hazardous waste recycler since the facility does not ship hazardous waste lamp components off-site.
Benefits we can offer that would keep you in compliance with state and federal regulations:
- VES performs the complete process of recycling your lamps. A certificate of recycling will be issued to protect you from any financial liabilities.
- VES features $15 million in pollution liability coverage and $5 million in contractors operations & professional services coverage.
- State-of-the-art DME equipment separates your lamps into basic components of glass, aluminum, copper, phosphor powder and mercury.
- Your lamps can be processed within 24 hours of receipt.
The lamps are conveyed into a chamber where a breaker performs an initial particle size reduction of the lamps. Broken lamp pieces are then crushed to achieve a greater particle size reduction and transferred to a primary separator to separate the larger components (aluminum end caps). The remaining components are then further separated generating three process streams, glass cullet, glass fines, and phosphor powder. The mercury powder is retorted in-house, recovering the mercury.
The Vapor Collection System is designed to control mercury vapor and dust emissions from the process. The system draws mercury vapor and dust from the process equipment into the bag house. The filter arrangement is designed to trap 99.99% of air-borne particles measuring 0.5 microns or larger. Dust accumulates in containers located underneath the bag house. The air stream leaving the bag house then passes through a sulfur-impregnated carbon vessel to further remove mercury vapors. Each stack is monitored using a real-time mercury vapor-monitoring instrument in accordance with facility’s specific operating permit/plan. A portable Jerome mercury vapor analyzer is used to monitor mercury vapor concentrations in the air throughout the workplace, on a daily basis.
VES de-manufactures these mercury-containing lamps, reclaiming the glass, metal, powder and mercury. VES also reclaims mercury from other devices such as thermometers, thermostats, barometers, etc.
Our Credentials:
| Name & Address: | Veolia ES Technical Solutions, L.L.C. 342 Marpan Lane, Tallahassee, FL 32305 |
| EPA ID Number: FL0000207449 | |
| Pollution Insurance: PLS1364667 AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY LINES INS CO General Liability: GL 4177311 COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY INS. CO. COPS Insurance: COPS 1956720 AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY LINES INS CO | |
| State EPA Contact: | Jim Byer Florida Department of Environmental Protection 160 Government Center, Pensacola, FL 32501-5794 (850) 595-8360 ext 1264 |
| Copies of all permits: | Air permit, letter of approval to operate a recycling facility. |
| Results of Most Recent Inspection: | Pass |
| Notices of Violations: | None |
| Summary of Consent Agreements: | NA |
