Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency: 2017 officially launched 4 kinds of LED lighting source

Taiwan District Environmental Protection Agency before the date of announcement, the Taiwan market will officially begin from 2017, the comprehensive recovery of LED lighting products abandoned, including straight type, ring type, tube type and close ballast built-in four kinds of light emitting diode (LED) lighting, Taiwan environmental protection department stressed that the responsibility of manufacturing, this kind of LED light source the importer for goods recycling, clearance and disposal.

Taiwan Environmental Protection Department said that in order to avoid causing more environmental pollution, and to ensure the fairness of the lighting source responsibility of the industry, the official announcement on January 1, 2017 to start recycling. In recent years, due to the promotion of environmental protection and energy saving lighting source, the LED lighting consumption gradually increased market share rise, gradually replace the traditional lighting source, because it contains a battery, wires, circuit board, glass, plastic and aluminum projects, with recycling value, if not included in the notice and recycling waste recovery planning properly then, the subsequent fear caused environmental pollution.

Environmental protection department said that at present the majority of the market have been included in the existing lighting announcement should be recycled waste, for recycling problem and consider the lighting industry responsibility waste LED lighting source after the fairness, the EPA revised "clear responsibility processing industry articles or its packaging container and for recycling the scope of the first table 1" the recycling of new lighting source definition, straight type, used for lighting ring pipe type, close type ballast and built-in four kinds of light emitting diode (LED) lighting source for responsibility, responsibility, the goods manufacturing industry for input recycling, clearance and disposal.

Taiwan environmental protection department pointed out that the revised announcement, the expansion of recycling lighting projects, if people have straight type, ring type, tube type and close ballast built-in four kinds of light emitting diode (LED) lighting source recovery needs, as long as the closing industry to clean the recycling truck or back to the team, you can let these items into the waste recycling system, avoid environmental pollution, promote recycling of resources. To remind people to replace the new lamp (bulb), remove the waste lamp (bulb) into the original new paper protective sleeve, and the broken waste tube (bulb), thick paper and plastic bags will be recommended to the proper bale again by the cleaning team, the recycling truck lighting stores selling point of sale (reverse recovery the Environmental Protection Agency) or nuclear recyclers of unified recovery.

For the LED light source traders, input industry, and LED light source manufacturers, LED light source in the Taiwan area of sales, selling local production or overseas imports, 2017 will increase the corresponding waste recycling cost, and consumers will start the recovery mechanism, replace new purchase and waste LED light source, and will be before the fluorescent light other similar products, circulation of more complete.

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