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Experts called on strengthening environmental protection treatment of LED lamp
Just past 2011, as Shanghai city hall from one project, 5000000 energy-saving lamps through price subsidies, is extended to the thousands of families, put into use. As the substitute of incandescent lamp, energy saving lamp can not only for the residents saving, but also by reducing the thermal power plant's energy consumption to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, can kill.
However, in all sorts of advantage backside, energy-saving lamps in the elimination and update the environmental pressure, less attention is paid to. A few days ago, the expert appeals, in the government vigorously promote energy-saving lamp at the same time, must be in the environmental treatment of "one step ahead", avoid the energy-saving lamp has become a new source of pollution.
Energy saving behind hidden trouble
In most people's consciousness of environmental protection, energy-saving lamp is often synonymous, energy saving. However, there are few people would know, if be popularized in large area, but not in the late processing gain enough attention it, then the already fragile ecological environment, energy-saving lamps have the potential to become a huge source of pollution. And all of this, all because of energy-saving lamp contains a component: mercury.
The reporter understands from lighting industry, the manufacturing process constraints, energy-saving lamps products will inevitably tinged with mercury, it is the commonly known as mercury composition. Despite a general energy-saving lamps usually mercury content of only 0.5 mg, but very small amounts of mercury, the pollution of the environment of the "power" is surprisingly large -- 1 milligrams of mercury into the ground, can cause about 360 tons of contaminated, the calculation, a waste of energy saving lamp if disposed of improperly, may eventually pollution from 90 tons to 180 tons of water and soil around.
Environmental protection departments responsible person told the reporter, currently in vigorously promote energy-saving lamp at the same time, the waste energy saving lamp processing, has received little attention and publicity. Many members of the public on abandoned energy-saving lamp, often just like ordinary garbage, a throw. You can imagine the mercury once it enters the water, days and months multiplying, will soon become the new" environmental killer".
Overseas experience
Since the energy-saving lamp has the potential to cause such a huge environmental risks, then we should abandon the use of an energy saving lamp? The answer is no.. From a technical and management in two ways, we are not difficult to find that energy-saving lamps in the energy saving at the same time, as much as possible to reduce the environmental pollution effective method.
Experts told the reporter, in the western developed countries, for energy-saving lamp recycling work very seriously and built the corresponding specification. The United States environmental protection law to the original owners of their waste to the waste in the end, this fundamentally curb the disposable phenomenon. In the United States of America has 7 states, have laws banning energy-saving fluorescent bulbs placed directly in the conventional garbage bags, in the same year as specified in the specific time to waste energy saving fluorescent bulbs, so as to facilitate the residents.
And our close neighbor Japan, due to the narrow people, environment pressure is great, it is in the fluorescent lamp recycling made a whole world as most perfect provisions. In addition to government specially set recovery points outside the Japanese people, there are also a large number of energy-saving fluorescent lamp recycling mechanism. In Hokkaido, waste battery and waste fluorescent lamp recycling work, even 93% is composed of non-governmental environmental protection organizations collected, while the remaining 7%, the manufacturer is responsible for collecting. In Sweden and Germany and other European countries, is also the sales system recovery and community recycling two parallel channels to the recycling of waste of energy saving lamp.