Silver reclamation represents a source for additional revenue from photographic solutions and in addition, the enactment of environmental laws by city, state and federal agencies has resulted in discharge limits set for many materials. Silver is one of the materials that is regulated.

Facilities utilizing x-ray processing equipment are required by Federal Law to comply with criteria set by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act for hazardous waste discharge. The Environmental Protection Agency limits silver discharged from automatic film processors to five parts per million (5 ppm.). Criteria on discharge limits for the water quality standards were set in the 1970’s. The EPA set limits for silver discharge to protect plant and animal life in fresh and salt water. The EPA regulates silver according to three different standards; drinking water, hazardous waste (for solid waste) and water quality.

Kool-X Consultants/ X File Services provides silver recovery/pollution control equipment for x-ray processors to medical and industrial facilities to meet the Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Kool-X Consultants/ X File Services has provided services, since 1972, to medical and industrial facilities with environmental systems designed to recover silver from spent fixer solutions, programs for purging x-ray scrap and file films and relocation and refiling of file films from facility file rooms to other designated storage sites.

Kool-X Consultants/ X File Services in association with PETAG Inc, provides refining services for silver flake, ion cells, x-ray scrap and file films. As environmentally conscientious companies, the advanced technology utilized in refining, allows the flake silver and films to be recycled into useful and environmentally safe by-products.

Kool-X Consultants/ X File Services and PETAG Inc. maintain all permits required by state and federal governmental agencies. Both companies maintain an environmentally safe operation and have no past or pending citations or litigations involving city, state or federal agency environmental pollution violations.