| - Enormous savings from crushing the lamps | | | | without the use of a light bulb crusher. |
| rather than boxing them up for disposal. | | | | - Reduce waste disposal costs. It is estimated |
| - Completely eliminate the hassles of storing | | | | that a facility can save as much as 10 cents to 1 |
| boxes and boxes of spent bulbs. | | | | dollar per lamp that is crushed versus manually |
| - 1349 T8 48" lamps fit neatly into a 55 gallon | | | | packed and disposed of. |
| drum when crushed. | | | | There are many benefits to the workers who |
| - Eliminate handling of glass bulbs which easily | | | | use these fluorescent bulb crushers in terms of |
| break and cut the workers hands and arms. | | | | safety, man hours worked, and job satisfaction. In |
| - Create a safe work place for your associates. | | | | addition, there is a great benefit to our |
| The E.P.A. estimates that 2 to 3% of all accidental | | | | environment. Broken bulbs release an enormous |
| breaks occur while boxing burnt out bulbs. | | | | amount of mercury into our atmosphere every |
| - Greatly reduce the man hours required to | | | | year. In fact, there are approximately 899 million |
| manually pack and store the bulbs. This equates | | | | spent bulbs disposed of every year! This results in |
| to about 19 to 20 hours of man hours for every | | | | an enormous amount of mercury which is |
| 1000 bulbs. | | | | released into the air. This mercury then does |
| - Helps clean up our environment by eliminating | | | | substantial damage to the environment and our |
| the harmful mercury vapor which gets released | | | | food. |
| into the environment once a lamp is broken | | | | |