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By Jed Duvall
Special to the Rappahannock News
When it sets to chewing, it makes the most satisfying crunching sound. That’s one way to think about the simple device operating at the landfill in Amissville.
It is a fluorescent bulb recycling machine, at work whenever the dump is open. The bulb cruncher is a simple device that is important in efforts to keep poisons out of the air, soil and water table. The machine is more properly called the Air Cycle Corporation’s Fluorescent Lamp Crushing System.
Tlie long, cylindrical bulbs are fed into the top of the grinder, which chews them to bits with spinning chains. The crushing is done within the drum, so as to capture mercury toxins used in the lights. A filter inside the drum is designed to capture more than 99 percent of the mercury.
Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy stated, “our crusher captures all (the toxic chemicals, which are) sent to a firm that extracts the heavy metals, et cetera and disposes of same properly.” McCarthy added that “while the crusher is not
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