PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently separate fluorescent material that contains rare earth elements from cool white fluorescent material that does not contain the rare earth elements, and to recover the fluorescent material that contains the rare earth elements in high purity.;SOLUTION: A waste fluorescent tube disposal device is provided with a separation and recovery means to separate and recover a pulverized material containing the fluorescent material from sorted three band fluorescent tubes, and a mercury separation means to separate and remove mercury from the pulverized material recovered by the separation and recovery means.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO
展开▼