China is the world's largest producer of energy-saving lamps, and it is also the country most seriously affected by the use of energy-saving lamps. According to official statistics, in 2009, China had more than 6,000 energy-saving lamp manufacturing enterprises with an output value of US$23 billion and an energy-saving lamp output of 3.8 billion, accounting for about one-third of global production, of which two-thirds were exported and sold more than 170. Countries.
"A common energy-saving lamp contains only 0.5 milligrams of mercury, but its power to pollute the environment is astonishing. It may contaminate 1,000 liters of water or 300 cubic meters of air. The national energy-saving lamps use about 1.4 billion, if these The lights are eventually treated as ordinary garbage, and it will become a terrible ecological killer,†said Lu Lixin, an associate professor of resources and environmental sciences at Henan University of Economics and Law, in an interview with a reporter from the Central People's Radio.
Recycling of energy-saving lamps into a problem to prevent "Hg pollution" is imminent
Lu Wenbin, Director of the Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction Division of the Circumstances Division of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in an interview with a reporter from the People's Daily that in 1996, the state officially launched the “China Green Lighting Project†and listed energy-saving lamps in China’s “Ninth Five-year Plan†and “ In the “15th Five-Year†key energy-saving field, it has become one of the ten key energy-saving projects in the “11th Five-Year Planâ€. "China Green Lighting Project" mainly uses compact fluorescent lamps, metal halide lamps, high pressure sodium lamps and other efficient lighting products to replace incandescent lamps and other inefficient lighting products in use. Compact fluorescent lamps, also known as energy-saving lamps, have high light efficiency (5 times that of ordinary light bulbs), long life (8 times that of ordinary light bulbs), and are currently the main products of the country.
Director Lu also said that at present, the sales ratio of energy-saving lamps and incandescent lamps in the Chinese market has increased from 1:8 years ago a decade ago to the current 1.4: 1.2008 and 2009, and China’s financial subsidies have promoted 210 million high-efficiency energy-saving products. The average annual energy saving is 8.8 billion kwh, which has achieved remarkable results. This year will continue to use financial subsidies to promote more than 150 million efficient energy-saving products. The main task of green lighting during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period is to gradually phase out incandescent lamps, further increase the promotion of energy-saving lamps, and eventually form a capacity of 40 billion kwh per year. "Financial subsidies to promote energy-saving lamps may not necessarily be the most effective way. The government will gradually withdraw according to specific conditions."
From the current situation, waste energy-saving lamps mainly come from end users and manufacturers. According to Jia Qiang, president of Xiamen Donglin Electronics, the author stated that the loss rate of energy-saving manufacturers is about 3%. From this, it is estimated that only 3.8 billion energy-saving lamps will produce more than 100 million scrapped products. If the average life span of each energy-saving lamp is 3 years, there will be more than 500 million energy-saving lamps in the consumer market in China each year. Therefore, China has abandoned at least 600 million energy-saving lamps each year. Of the 100 citizens who were randomly surveyed, 98 told the author that if the energy-saving lamps were broken, they would be thrown away. Tossing out the obsolete energy-saving lamps is what most people are used to. If calculated on the average of 1,000 litres of water per energy-saving lamp, at least 600 billion liters of water will be contaminated with mercury each year in China.
According to medical experts, when water resources are polluted by mercury, humans and other animals will suffer from chronic poisoning after drinking, and the medical community calls it Minamata disease. Patients with hand-foot coordination disorder may even experience walking difficulties, movement disorders, mental retardation, hearing and speech disorders, numbness of the extremities, sensory disturbances, and reduced vision; for example, neurological disorders, mental disorders, paralysis, and finally death occur. About half of the critically ill patients in the three months from the onset of the death of the general patient, pregnant women will also bring this mercury poisoning to the child of the child, so that young children are mentally handicapped. Congenital whisper disease is the mother's intake of methylmercury, causing fetal central nervous system disorders through the placenta. The main clinical manifestations are: severe mental retardation, coordination disorders, ataxia, difficulty walking, language, chewing, difficulty swallowing, poor growth and development, muscle atrophy, epileptic seizures, strabismus, and laughter. Most of the sick children have various symptoms after 3 months. There are no patients with mental illness, dementia, and neuropathy in the family of sick children, and there are no abnormalities in childbirth. The common feature of his medical history is that pregnant women have eaten fish and shellfish contaminated with methylmercury, and 64% of sick children have a history of acute vesicular disease. Children's hair mercury was 20-30% higher than mother's hair mercury, mercury in cord blood was higher than normal children, and methyl mercury in mother's milk was also high.
It can be seen that the problem of polluting the environment with discarded energy-saving lamps is very serious. According to Lu Lixin, an associate professor at Henan University of Economics and Law, the number of discarded energy-saving lamps is increasing day by day. The government must start the recycling of energy-saving lamps as soon as possible. If discarded energy-saving lamps are littered, recycling will be more difficult.
The author believes that energy conservation is a good thing, but if the power resources are contaminated and water resources are polluted, the government may be well-intentioned and do a bad job.
"A common energy-saving lamp contains only 0.5 milligrams of mercury, but its power to pollute the environment is astonishing. It may contaminate 1,000 liters of water or 300 cubic meters of air. The national energy-saving lamps use about 1.4 billion, if these The lights are eventually treated as ordinary garbage, and it will become a terrible ecological killer,†said Lu Lixin, an associate professor of resources and environmental sciences at Henan University of Economics and Law, in an interview with a reporter from the Central People's Radio.
Recycling of energy-saving lamps into a problem to prevent "Hg pollution" is imminent
Lu Wenbin, Director of the Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction Division of the Circumstances Division of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in an interview with a reporter from the People's Daily that in 1996, the state officially launched the “China Green Lighting Project†and listed energy-saving lamps in China’s “Ninth Five-year Plan†and “ In the “15th Five-Year†key energy-saving field, it has become one of the ten key energy-saving projects in the “11th Five-Year Planâ€. "China Green Lighting Project" mainly uses compact fluorescent lamps, metal halide lamps, high pressure sodium lamps and other efficient lighting products to replace incandescent lamps and other inefficient lighting products in use. Compact fluorescent lamps, also known as energy-saving lamps, have high light efficiency (5 times that of ordinary light bulbs), long life (8 times that of ordinary light bulbs), and are currently the main products of the country.
Director Lu also said that at present, the sales ratio of energy-saving lamps and incandescent lamps in the Chinese market has increased from 1:8 years ago a decade ago to the current 1.4: 1.2008 and 2009, and China’s financial subsidies have promoted 210 million high-efficiency energy-saving products. The average annual energy saving is 8.8 billion kwh, which has achieved remarkable results. This year will continue to use financial subsidies to promote more than 150 million efficient energy-saving products. The main task of green lighting during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period is to gradually phase out incandescent lamps, further increase the promotion of energy-saving lamps, and eventually form a capacity of 40 billion kwh per year. "Financial subsidies to promote energy-saving lamps may not necessarily be the most effective way. The government will gradually withdraw according to specific conditions."
From the current situation, waste energy-saving lamps mainly come from end users and manufacturers. According to Jia Qiang, president of Xiamen Donglin Electronics, the author stated that the loss rate of energy-saving manufacturers is about 3%. From this, it is estimated that only 3.8 billion energy-saving lamps will produce more than 100 million scrapped products. If the average life span of each energy-saving lamp is 3 years, there will be more than 500 million energy-saving lamps in the consumer market in China each year. Therefore, China has abandoned at least 600 million energy-saving lamps each year. Of the 100 citizens who were randomly surveyed, 98 told the author that if the energy-saving lamps were broken, they would be thrown away. Tossing out the obsolete energy-saving lamps is what most people are used to. If calculated on the average of 1,000 litres of water per energy-saving lamp, at least 600 billion liters of water will be contaminated with mercury each year in China.
According to medical experts, when water resources are polluted by mercury, humans and other animals will suffer from chronic poisoning after drinking, and the medical community calls it Minamata disease. Patients with hand-foot coordination disorder may even experience walking difficulties, movement disorders, mental retardation, hearing and speech disorders, numbness of the extremities, sensory disturbances, and reduced vision; for example, neurological disorders, mental disorders, paralysis, and finally death occur. About half of the critically ill patients in the three months from the onset of the death of the general patient, pregnant women will also bring this mercury poisoning to the child of the child, so that young children are mentally handicapped. Congenital whisper disease is the mother's intake of methylmercury, causing fetal central nervous system disorders through the placenta. The main clinical manifestations are: severe mental retardation, coordination disorders, ataxia, difficulty walking, language, chewing, difficulty swallowing, poor growth and development, muscle atrophy, epileptic seizures, strabismus, and laughter. Most of the sick children have various symptoms after 3 months. There are no patients with mental illness, dementia, and neuropathy in the family of sick children, and there are no abnormalities in childbirth. The common feature of his medical history is that pregnant women have eaten fish and shellfish contaminated with methylmercury, and 64% of sick children have a history of acute vesicular disease. Children's hair mercury was 20-30% higher than mother's hair mercury, mercury in cord blood was higher than normal children, and methyl mercury in mother's milk was also high.
It can be seen that the problem of polluting the environment with discarded energy-saving lamps is very serious. According to Lu Lixin, an associate professor at Henan University of Economics and Law, the number of discarded energy-saving lamps is increasing day by day. The government must start the recycling of energy-saving lamps as soon as possible. If discarded energy-saving lamps are littered, recycling will be more difficult.
The author believes that energy conservation is a good thing, but if the power resources are contaminated and water resources are polluted, the government may be well-intentioned and do a bad job.