Mercury Pollution Prevention Policy: Another Opportunity for LED Lighting Industry

It is gradually become a trend that energy efficient lamps are replacing the incandescent bulbs. However energy efficient lamps mercury pollution arouse attention from all sides. Senior industry experts told reporters that the small diameter T5, T8 straight tube fluorescent lamps and circular fluorescent lamps due to the use of hand-Note mercury process, more prone to excessive mercury content. Experts said the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Environmental Protection is planning to policies formulated strengthen mercury-free products and related industries mercury pollution prevention work, to prohibit the approved production of the new use of liquid mercury and manually inject mercury fluorescent lamps, renovation and expansion project.

In the end of 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Notice on the progressive ban on the import and sale of general lighting incandescent and announced, by 2016, China will basically phasing out the use of ordinary incandescent lighting. At the same time, the National Development and Reform Commission, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

"China, as the country with the largest mercury use and emissions, has been facing huge pressure to reduce emissions of mercury reduction." Chemical Registration Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection Research Associate Kan Xiaodong revealed that in July this year, the convening of the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, convened by the United Nations Environment Programme. The deputies further negotiations to draft a legally binding global mercury convention (referred to as "the global mercury instruments"), to reduce the supply of mercury, reducing the demand for products and processes of mercury and mercury reduction of international trade is the focus of the negotiation process fields. Ministry of Environmental Protection, revealed to reporters, the mercury instruments as the International Covenant on involved in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. 

In the lighting Industry, mercury is mainly used in the production of the gas discharge lamp. "The secretary general of the China Association of Lighting Chen Yansheng told reporters that a set of data: According to estimates, in 2011 industry-wide use of mercury is about 57 tons, which retained The mercury in the product of about 40 tons, about 17 tons of mercury emissions in the production process. Which are widely used in hospitals, schools and other straight tube fluorescent lighting spaces and light box advertising display the total amount of mercury up to 26.9 tons.

The reporter was informed that, in order to reduce the total amount of mercury straight tube fluorescent lamps, the lighting industry should gradually seek the LED lights as an alternative light source. LED lights display index is not very good, plus the price is generally higher than the energy efficient lamps, only through technical research in order to win market advantages relative to the straight tube fluorescent lamps. As for LED indoor and outdoor lighting products such as LED panel and LED wall lamp, there is a great potential for development.

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