MERCURY RECOVERY PLANT
Future Environmental Services
OUR MERCURY RECOVERY PLANT:
Providing a comprehensive mercury recovery process, decontamination and spill response service across the UK.
FIS provide a solution for mercury contaminated wastes which meets the Best Available
Technique through its mercury recovery plant in Berwick upon Tweed.
The mercury recovery plant is based on the breakdown of mercury compounds into metallic mercury followed by vacuum distillation to leave a residual processed material which is suitable for reuse, recovery or disposal. The typical mercury fraction is 99.99% pure.
THIS SERVICE
MERCURY BEARING WASTES
- Catalysts
- Mercury Contaminated Sludge
- Treatment of Lamp Powder
- Filter Residues, Filter Media
- Contaminated Equipment & Pipework
- Treatment of Mercury Contaminated Soil
- Thermometers, Sphygs, PPE, Plant & Equipment
- Treatment of Inorganic Mercury Lab Smalls
- Treatment of Dental Amalgam
- Batteries & Button Cells
- Activated Carbon Contaminated with Mercury

OFF-SITE SERVICES
includes:
- Surface Contamination
- Pipe Cleaning
- Investigations
- Sampling & Removal of Plant & Equipment
- Emergency Spills