Guidance for Equipment Recyclers

This information is for recycling facilities to ensure that Carestream Health products are handled in the most responsible manner at their end-of-life.

Digital Radiography

Digital Radiography products may include:

  • lead in printed circuit boards, glass in CRT (if provided), shielding for the x-ray generator, collimator, and bucky/grid, counterweights in the DR9000, batteries in table, universal power supply batteries, PVC sheathed wiring
  • thallium and cesium iodide in detector
  • mercury in a flat panel display
  • PVC/PVDC in wiring
  • cadmium in PVC sheathed wiring
  • selenium in detector / array
  • laser

DIRECTVIEW & Point-of-Care CR

DIRECTVIEW & Point-of-Care CR products may include:

  • lead in printed circuit boards, cassette foil, glass in CRT, universal power supply batteries, PVC sheathed wiring
  • mercury in flat panel displays and lamps
  • PVC/PVDC in wiring
  • cadmium in PVC sheathed wiring
  • arsenic in laser diodes
  • barium in CR screens
  • chromium VI in hardware and steel
  • laser

LS Film Digitizers

LS Film Digitizers may include:

  • lead in printed circuit boards and glass in CRT (if supplied), PVC sheathed wiring
  • PVC/PVDC in wiring insulation
  • cadmium in PVC sheathed wiring
  • chromium VI in hardware and steel
  • laser

Mammography Computer Aided Design Scanner

Mammography Computer Aided Design Scanner may include:

  • lead in printed circuit boards and glass in CRT (if supplied), universal power supply and PVC sheathed wiring
  • PVC/PVDC in wiring insulation
  • cadmium in PVC sheathed wiring
  • chromium VI in hardware and steel
  • mercury in flat panel displays and fluorescent lights

DRYVIEW, Color Medical Imager (CMI), and Medical Imager Manager (MIM) (Digital Output)

These may include:

  • lead in printed circuit boards, flat panel displays, universal power supply, PVC sheathed wiring
  • mercury in flat panel displays displays
  • PVC/PVDC in wiring
  • arsenic in laser diodes
  • cadmium in PVC sheathed wiring
  • chromium VI in hardware and steel
  • laser

Processors, Multiloaders, Automixers, Autofeeders and ID Cameras, Cassettes and Related Accessories

These products may include:

  • lead in printed circuit boards, flat panel displays, universal power supply, PVC sheathed wiring
  • lead foil in cassettes
  • mercury in flat panel displays
  • PVC/PVDC in wiring and cable assemblies
  • arsenic in laser diodes
  • cadmium in PVC sheathed wiring
  • chromium VI in hardware and steel
  • laser