If you’re like many
metal refiners, the issue of environmental impact has crossed your mind. This
is especially true if the state in which you’re based has strict regulations
that target your business for excessive copper, silver, and other non-precious
metals that qualify as restricted. Improve your business’s impact on the
environment and reduce precious metal waste by adjusting how you operate.
Hire Professionals
If you craft jewelry,
you don’t always have the time to devote to refining metal. The best precious
metal refiners take on clients and offer to do the refining for them
from jewelry craft excess and other materials clients gather. They also sell
their own refined metal so you don’t have to worry about collecting materials.
Focus on what matters to you — the jewelry design and manufacture — and stop
worrying about environmental impacts by leaving the refining to the experts.
Don’t Mix Ultrasonic Solutions With Waste Water
The waste water you
use to collect the small amount of precious metal that comes off during your
refining process or even when polishers wash their hands won’t collect all of
your metal. If you consistently mix ultrasonic solutions into your settling
tanks with the waste water, you’ll lose even more of the metals back along with
the waste, which means your excess metals make their way back to the natural
water source in your area.
Use Flocculant
Even if you keep your
ultrasonic solutions separate from your waste water, you’ll still have some
metal that escapes with the water. Filters won’t help. Treat the water with
flocculant before it leaves the building and the metal particles will collect
as a sludge that’s easier to extract.
Caring about your
business’ impact on the environment not only keeps your business free of
regulation infractions, but it also ensures you get the most metal out of your
refining process. If you don’t want to worry about it, do the most efficient
and easy thing: hire an expert to do it or buy from the expert directly.
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