The Ministry of environmental protection: since 2021, our country will no longer use fluorescent lamp and mercury battery

The Ministry of Environmental Protection announced in July 20th, the "Minamata Convention" on Mercury will come into force in August 16, 2017, from 2021 onwards, Chinese will eliminate the "Minamata Convention" on mercury requirements of mercury containing batteries, production and use of fluorescent products by 2032, to shut down all of the native mercury ore mined.

Mercury is known as mercury, at room temperature only liquid metal, widely used in a variety of products and process. And the use of mercury and its compounds, emissions will cause environmental pollution, caused by human and mammalian animal nerve, immune, reproductive system dysfunction is severe, especially has a great impact on the fetus and pregnant women.

The "Minamata Convention" on Mercury is a new global Convention on environment and health fields in recent ten years in the contract, to urge the government to take concrete measures to control mercury pollution. The United Nations Environment Programme in February 2009 reached the Convention, China is the earliest one of the signatories. In 2016, the National People's Congress formally approved the ratification of the convention. According to the United Nations Environment Programme news, so far, the Convention has 128 contracting parties.

The Ministry of environmental protection deputy director of international cooperation center Yu Lifeng at a press conference, announced the performance schedule Chinese: from 2021 onwards, Chinese will eliminate "Minamata Convention" requirement on mercury containing mercury batteries, fluorescent lamp production and use; VCM (Lv Yi Xi, will produce waste water containing mercury) production industry the use of per unit of product is reduced by 50% in 2021 (based on 2010); by 2032, to shut down all of the native mercury ore mining; for coal-fired electric field emission sources, to 2020 to complete the emission system, a clear focus on the source control, to determine the emission reduction targets and measures.

Yu Lifeng introduced, in order to implement the Convention, in conjunction with the relevant departments of the Ministry of environmental protection has been amended a number related to the mercury emission standards, assessment of the current state of the ten main mercury pollution industries, launched the preparation of strategic action plan. The next step will be to control the source, reduction, development of alternative technology to jointly promote the industry with mercury reduction, plan and step to carry out mercury containing waste and contaminated sites management work.

According to Yu Lifeng introduction, China is one of the use and emissions of mercury. "12th Five-Year" period, China has one of the heavy metal mercury included in the five priority control, in a formal performance before some sectors of the work has been carried out by means of control, energy conservation and other measures to do a lot of work.

"It is a win-win process performance of Chinese such developing countries, the performance is also forced the elimination of backward production capacity, technical level of related industries to enhance the." Yu Lifeng said.

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