We purchase Old Outdated X-Ray Films and Pay Top Dollar. We also Purge Your file room completely free of charge and Destroy them on site. We are 100% HIPAA Law Compliant AND We Service Every State in the U.S. We work with the largest hospitals, clinics, and imaging centers across the world and throughout the United States. We Buy the Film in the Jackets and destroy all PHI.
We recover silver from old x-ray films of all kinds including medical films, lithographic and industrial, both exposed or un-exposed films for silver recovery and destruction purposes.
Approximately one-fifth of the silver used each year worldwide ends up in X-ray film, according to Haruo Ishikawa, a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of Japan's University of Osaka Prefecture. After X-ray film is developed and fixed, it holds about two percent by weight of silver in its emulsion layers, which are made of gelatin. The most common current process to recover silver from used X-ray film is to burn the film in a furnace and retrieve the precious metal from the ashes. However, this method is "rather expensive because of the cost of maintaining the furnace and treating the soot and foul-smelling smoke. Furthermore ... recovery and purity of silver are low and the re-use of the polyester film is impossible."
Silver recovery from x-ray film is a process that at the end of it the silver on x-ray films is recovered in a purity of 99.9% silver in order to reuse the silver in the same way or with other applications, the silver is sold back to the market in forms of bars or bullions. We will take the X-rays in the jackets and purge and destroy on site at no charge.
The silver recovery process from x-ray films is done by stripping all of the x-ray films with a unique liquid which removes the silver into fluid and leaves the x-ray blank, the plastic is then prepared for PET reuse.
This process assures that all of the records on x-ray films are being destroyed.
We pick-up for free, nationwide, our pick-up and our x-ray film recycling program is 100% safe. We also provide a certificate of destruction for all of your medical records including x-rays and paper jackets that come with the films.