Nearly nine residents do not know recyclable energy-saving lamps

Annual saving of 516 000 degrees

"Create" green body ", a year can save a lot of money." Yangzhou Government Offices Administration official says, to meet the City Commission by letter, the Municipal Finance Bureau for financial subsidies to the promotion of efficient lighting products, large single authorities replacement hospital on the concentration of more than 6,000 energy-saving light bulbs and other energy facilities, centralized purchasing energy efficient products 500 sent to the departments concerned to use. Through a series of energy-saving promotion, has now been achieved in saving 516,000 degrees.

The responsible person, made since 2010 to create the National Ecological Yangzhou city has created a "green body" as one of the important content to be a high priority. City leaders specifically asked, in 2012 the city should create more than 80% of the body into a "green body."

Survey

Jiucheng residents do not know science and discarded

The site of the exhibition on energy saving lamps, waste lamp recycling knowledge, to attract a lot of people stop. "Waste of energy saving lamps, lamps and other waste, recyclable trash to be placed, and contact a qualified business recovery." Field staff said that energy is also displayed at the same time promote scientific discarded.

So understanding how community residents? Yesterday, reporters rushed to the recreational Village, Four Seasons Park District, to find more than 40 energy-saving lamps at home using a random survey of the public, the result is not optimistic that 90% of users knowing only, do not know science and discarded.

"Lamp is broken, throw trash directly to the ah, this can be recycled?" Said Mr. Chen Four Seasons Park District residents.

Hidden danger

0.1 mg of mercury or 50 tons of water pollution

"The more mercury inside the tube, many people do not know, 0.1 mg of mercury can contaminate 50 tons of water." Scene of a corporate employee, if the lamp used as a general waste disposal, easy on the environment, ground water produced pollution.

The staff said that many residents do not understand why this is the result of energy-saving lamp life is longer, the peak has not been forthcoming update. In addition, the district more than the lack of publicity mercury inside the tube, there is no centralized collection points, which led to the current waste lamp recycling in the civil cold.

He said that the current municipal authorities have begun to discard the concept of popular science. Area residents should also be used for energy-saving publicity week time, widely publicized and guidance.

Environmentalists Wu said, to make "green" is more complete, and other places in the district should set up a special collection points for energy-saving lamp will become the plastics, used batteries and other new sources of pollution after another.