What waste fluorescent lamps belong to?

What waste fluorescent lamps belong to?

Waste fluorescent lamps belong to harmful waste. This is because the structure of fluorescent lamps contains mercury (mercury), which is released into the environment after the lamp is broken, causing pollution to air, water and soil, and posing a potential hazard to human health. Inhalation of mercury vapor may affect the nervous system, so special care needs to be taken when disposing of waste fluorescent lamps and they cannot be discarded as ordinary garbage. In garbage classification, harmful waste needs to be specially collected and treated to prevent harmful substances such as mercury from causing harm to the environment and human body. The correct disposal of waste fluorescent lamps is an important part of environmental protection, and it is necessary to ensure that they are safely recycled and disposed of.

How to deal with waste fluorescent tubes?

Since 2008, energy-saving lamps have been included in the National Hazardous Waste List, although many people only know its energy-saving effect, but ignore the potential harm. Nowadays, LCD TVS and monitors also contain mercury-containing lamps as backlight, and a large number of energy-saving lamps and LCD backlight are landfill due to scrap every year. However, during the crushing and landfilling process of these lamps, mercury vapor will evaporate into the air and soil, resulting in excessive mercury content in the air and water, causing serious long-term irreversible damage to the environment.

Mercury-containing domestic waste must be classified as hazardous waste and collected by the garbage removal department to be sent to qualified treatment enterprises. Environmental protection departments and all sectors of society are increasing publicity efforts to prohibit people from throwing away these hazardous wastes at will. At the same time, the public is guided to turn waste energy-saving lamps into hazardous waste treatment centers for unified treatment.

The number of enterprises with safe and harmless treatment of waste energy-saving lamps in China is limited, and there is only one in Northwest China. The company has introduced the most advanced treatment technology and complete sets of equipment in the world, and built a harmless and resource-based treatment project that can handle 10,000 tons of waste energy-saving lamps and liquid crystal backlight materials containing mercury every year. This project not only solves the problem of harmless treatment of mercury-containing energy-saving lamps in Shaanxi Province and even the entire northwest region, but also has the ability to receive treatment of mercury-containing lamps in other surrounding areas.

The implementation of this project marks an important step forward in the treatment of mercury-containing waste in China, which is of great significance for the protection of the environment and public health. At the same time, it also reminds us that in the face of increasingly serious environmental problems, it is of Paramount importance to raise public awareness of environmental protection and the proper disposal of hazardous waste.