Treatment of solid wastes e.g. fiber-cement polluted by mercury, useful to fix mercurial species e.g. elemental mercury as sulfur amalgam in solid wastes, comprises oxidization and sulfidation of mercurial species in alkaline medium
Process of treating solid wastes polluted by mercury comprises oxidization of mercurial species and sulfidation of the oxidized mercury species in an alkaline medium. An independent claim is included for a process of fixation of elemental mercury, mercurial forms and associated metals present in the solid waste, comprising implementing the given treatment to form insoluble and stable metallic sulfides.
