Silver Recovery from X-ray Film

Silver Recovery from X-ray Film

Silver extraction from x-ray and other photographic waste such as Hypo and Fixer solution etc. is a very systematic trade. About 27 percent of the silver produced every year is used in photographic industry globally. In India lot of Silver Recovery Process Units are extracting silver from X-ray films and used Hypo and Fixer Solutions. These units employ sodium hydroxide Method for Silver Recovery from X-ray Film. But that method is too old and time consuming. Now lot of new silver Extraction Methods from X-ray Films have come. They are less expensive and less time consuming also. In India you get an added advantage when you extract silver from x-ray film, and that is that after removing silver from the x-ray film, you can get a good price for your plain washed sheet, which is blue in colour. You can get around Rs.80 per kg for fresh x-ray sheet. That way you make money from silver as well as from the washed x-ray film.

The best thing about this business is that it can be started with little investment and it does not require much space also. You can do it in a fifty square yard (properly ventilated) area or even less. Two types of x-ray films are available in the market. One is fresh x-rays another one is second quality of x-ray films which is collected by the poor street boys from trash cans and public dumps as a means of their livelihood and sold to the scrap dealer of the city. You just can’t imagine what a huge quantity of used x-ray films is collected every day in every city and the money that the owners of silver extraction units make from this.

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 Silver Recovery from X-ray Film