Lighting problems: energy saving lamp for energy conservation is not environmentally friendly

Responsible for processing waste energy-saving lamps in Xiamen Topstar Lighting Co., Ltd., two units total amount for the machine design annual processing 3600 tons, the actual annual processing capacity of less than 100 tons, processing or production scrap Topstar their products in the process.

Shanghai waste Trading Co., Ltd. received last year, only 16 tons of light bulbs, less than its disposal capacity of one percent.

Waste energy saving lamps all over the country urgently need to properly recycle treatment, while many energy-saving lamps with professional qualification of the company, its processing machine in most of the time nothing to do.

Lack of recycling channels, the high cost of processing in the end of the energy saving lamp and the end of the treatment of a huge gap between the draw.

Pollution worries

2008, the Ministry of finance, the national development and Reform Commission to deploy the first batch of 50 million financial subsidies for the promotion of efficient lighting products, marking the promotion of efficient lighting products officially launched.

To enterprises as the object of subsidies, subsidies will be transferred from the enterprise to consumers indirect subsidies to support the promotion of efficient lighting products. This is the first time to use financial subsidies to support the majority of consumers involved in the promotion of energy-saving products.

According to statistics, efficient lighting products than ordinary incandescent lantern 60% to 80%, the service life of more than 4 to 6 times.

In November 1, 2011, the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of customs and the State Administration for Industry and commerce, the State Quality Inspection Administration jointly issued "Chinese phasing out incandescent roadmap", clearly from October 1, 2012 onwards, a phased ban the import and sale of incandescent lamps for general lighting.

China's lighting electricity accounted for about 13% of total electricity consumption, if our country in the 1 billion 400 million incandescent lamps are all replaced with energy-saving lamps, can achieve an annual saving 48 billion kwh, equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions of 48 million tons, a large energy saving potential.

However, another worry ensued.

If the waste energy-saving lamps be thrown into the garbage, crushing, burning to produce atomic mercury vapor into the atmosphere, and then settling into the soil or river, and microorganisms become organic compounds (such as methylmercury). Methylmercury can dissolve in fat, easily absorbed by the intestines, lungs, skin, into the blood, and accumulated in the human kidney, brain and other organs, resulting in chronic poisoning.

China, academician of the Academy of engineering of the NPC Standing Committee Xie Kechang provides a set of data: "e-waste harmful to the environment, such as the mercury content in waste fluorescent tube for an average of 0.5 mg /, seeping into the ground after about 180 tons of water pollution and the surrounding soil, and the current consumption of China's energy-saving lamps of up to 1 billion only the above. "

National Development and Reform Commission Energy Research Institute, former director Zhou Fengqi pointed out that if there is no recovery of energy-saving lamps this one, the promotion of energy-saving lamps on the lack of a policy.

Processing company is not enough"

Xiamen Topstar Lighting Co. Ltd. is the Ministry of environmental protection issued to bulk users and community waste energy-saving lamp recycling operation license in July of this year. At present, in addition to the company Topstar processing products, waste energy-saving lamps are also responsible for processing in Fujian province.

The company's safety and environmental protection department manager Yang Longbao told reporters: it is not without processing equipment, but the whole enterprise, the people's environmental protection concept is not to this extent, and then there is no government regulation. "

Yang Longbao admitted that most of their customers are not active, but there are mandatory requirements, only to find them. For example, some of the products produced by the company to export abroad, usually through third party audit, the requirements of the dangerous parts of the lamp to the processing quality of the Department to deal with.

"Some energy-saving lamp production enterprises to take the initiative to talk with us, we manage the treatment they produce waste; the bulk mainly from government procurement, there are a small number of people thrown into the recycling bin, we unified sent back home for treatment. Yang Longbao said.

In addition, the high price of processing has become the main reason for the treatment of the enterprise is not enough.

The recovery of waste energy saving lamps need to have professional personnel, vehicles to transport, coupled with the treatment, which will produce costs.

Shanghai waste Trading Co., Ltd. is currently the only company in Shanghai to get a qualified disposal of mercury containing substances, is currently facing the same problem.

Yang Guixing, general manager of the company told this reporter that the current waste lamps mainly from energy-saving lamp production enterprises, institutions and institutions and residents.

The cost of processing and recycling of waste generated by the production enterprise can be counted as part of the cost of production, so most of them can be paid, and the processing capacity of his company is about 100 tons. The organs and institutions often do not have the funds in advance, even if there is a waste lamp, no money, recycling companies are reluctant to accept. Residents of the charges even more out of the question, but in the absence of domestic waste classification, the residents of the use of waste lamps are often accompanied by domestic waste together with the crushing, processing enterprises can not get.

Moreover, the relatively high cost of processing, but also to some of the original was willing to participate in the recycling of waste energy recovery and processing enterprises and institutions prohibitive.

Shanghai has done calculations, the total design of a set of equipment is 1700 tons, if the amount of disposal can reach the total design of the amount of 1/8, then the cost of each lamp disposal costs 2.5 yuan, if the total design of the amount of