Mercury Waste - Process & Recycling
Bethlehem was one of the first companies in the U.S. to develop and market a Mercury Retort Recycling Service. Today we have 26 retorts with a capacity of over 1,000 tons per year. We process over 200 different types of mercury waste. More...
Mercury Compounds and Solutions
Bethlehem processes a variety of mercury compounds and solutions that many of our competitors are not able to handle. These include inorganic compounds, salts, and solutions like COD waste, oxides, chlorides, and nitrates. We use a specially designed reaction vessel with a daily capacity of 50 gallons. More...
Calomel/Mercury Chloride (HgCl) Conversion
Calomel is a mercury-bearing by-product that is generated from pollution control equipment used in the mining industry. Bethlehem's unique process converts calomel HgCI into elemental mercury and waste salt water. Process capacity is 600 tons per year. More...
Activated Carbon Processing
Pollution control systems in the mining industry use sulfur treated activated carbon to remove mercury vapor from both water and air streams. Bethlehem is in the design phase of building a retort for sulfur treated carbon with the capability of processing 1,000 tons per year. More...
Mercury Retirement / Stabilization
Bethlehem has developed a unique process that allows the retirement of elemental mercury from future use. This patented process (U.S. Patent No. 7,691,361) converts elemental mercury into a stabilized form. The resulting product is a red pellet that is safe for land disposal. More...
Mercury Relay Recycling Kits
Featuring a unique relationship with NEMA and FedEx® Ground, this program is designed to offer a convenient and safe method of disposing of mercury relays. Pre-paid recycling kits contain everything needed to ship to Bethlehem for processing. More...
Dental Amalgam Separator Processing
Bethlehem has contracted with the largest U.S. supplier of dental blank blank to process their in-line amalgam separators for reuse. We disassemble each unit, wash all constituent parts, and reassemble for reuse. More...
Mercury Pump Recycling
One of the world’s largest pump manufacturers turned to Bethlehem Apparatus for a solution concerning mercury. Large pumps containing mercury seals posed both a disposal and a refurbishing problem. More...
Mercury and Oil Separation Technology
Waste oil generated from the mercury retort process presented us with a unique waste disposal problem. We developed a system that employs a set of centrifuges to properly separate oil and PCB's from mercury. More...
Municipal Waste Water Treatment
All of our municipal waste water goes to the City of Bethlehem's waste water treatment plant. By statute we are not permitted to discharge any water that contains more than 4 parts per billion of mercury. More...
Fluorescent Lamp Recycling
Bethlehem is the only lamp recycling company in the United States that retorts the entire lamp before its constituent parts are sent for recycling and reuse. Retorting of all the glass and aluminum parts assures that all of the mercury is properly removed. Current capacity is 5,000 tons per year. More...
High Purity Mercury Distillation
Bethlehem's exclusive vacuum quadruple distillation process yields the highest purity mercury available on the world market today. Our guaranteed purity of 99.99995% is unmatched by any other large scale supplier. Production capacity is 650 tons per year. More...