The Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee called for the elimination of energy-saving lamps as a new source of pollution

The Agriculture and Industry Party Zhejiang Provincial Committee recently called for the establishment of a complete recycling system for discarded energy-saving lamps, so that energy-saving lamps will not become new after plastic products, waste electronic and Other products, while saving energy and reducing consumption and protecting the environment. Source of pollution.

The Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee of the A&F Party learned that the average life span of energy-saving lamps is 8,000 to 10,000 hours, which is about two to three years. The subsidized energy-saving lamps that are now being promoted and the energy-saving lamps purchased by the residents themselves in the market have entered the updating phase. This will face the problem of how to dispose of the energy-saving lamps. Many experts worry that these environmentally friendly green products will be treated as ordinary household waste after they have fulfilled their energy conservation missions, becoming an ecological stealth killer. Because energy-saving lamps are subject to manufacturing processes, most products use mercury as a discharge gas, and an energy-saving lamp tube contains 0.5 mg of mercury on average. One milligram of mercury can infiltrate the ground to contaminate 360 ​​tons of water, which means that the mercury content of an energy-saving lamp can cause 180 tons of water to be contaminated. In addition, when the waste energy-saving lamp is broken, mercury vapor will be emitted into the surrounding air and the concentration of mercury in the air can be instantaneously reached 10-20 mg/m3, exceeding the maximum allowable concentration of mercury in the national air quality standard 0.01. 1000 to 2000 times of mg/m3. Mercury is a highly toxic substance that can cause a variety of diseases. Mercury and its compounds are easily dissolved in fatty substances and enter the human body through the food chain. They accumulate in the body and cause long-term damage to the human body, causing severe mercury poisoning.

The Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee of Agriculture and Labour believes that although the mercury content of energy-saving lamps is relatively small compared to the coal-fired, chemical, mining, and medical industries, the quantity of mercury is huge, and most people treat their waste as ordinary waste, resulting in Billions of obsolete energy-saving lamps eventually go to landfills along with domestic waste, which can easily cause the broken energy-saving lamps to break and pollute the environment.

To this end, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee of the Agricultural and Labour Party recommended increasing publicity on the mercury pollution and hazards of energy-saving lamps and using various media and public service advertisements to publicize widely so that the public can understand the impact of throwing discarded energy-saving lamps at will on the environment. Help people establish the concept of recycling; pay attention to updating technology, minimize the mercury content in the process of producing energy-saving lamps, increase the promotion of energy-saving lighting products without mercury, and gradually replace the energy-saving lamp technology that contains mercury, and gradually realize energy saving. Balance between environmental protection; improve the recycling system of energy-saving lamps, include energy-saving lamps in the category of management according to hazardous wastes, improve relevant policies and regulations, formulate relevant standards, and clarify the recycling responsibilities of producers, sellers, and users; To promote the use of efficient lighting products incentives policy, the energy-saving lamps winning bid companies to convert a certain percentage of subsidies for the use of recycling and processing subsidies, and urge the successful bidder companies to sell energy-saving lamps at the same time, to undertake the responsibility of recycling and disposal of used energy-saving lamps. Increase the leverage of old-for-new prices and make up for cash As a trade-in subsidies when the masses take the old energy-saving lamps only pay a small fee to redeem the time.

In addition, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee of the Agricultural and Labour Party also proposed to exercise supervision responsibility to ensure that the recovered energy-saving lamps can be safely handled. Through the establishment of a waste-disposal energy-saving lamp factory, the mercury in the used energy-saving lamps will be extracted and reused to minimize the pollution of mercury contained in the environment.