Consumers need more information on how and where waste mercury-containing lamps and what to do when

Ecologists in Action welcomes the proposal for a directive to ban traditional incandescent bulbs, but warns that just ban does not solve the problem burlap texture of energy efficient lighting. On December 8, the governments of the European Union will vote on the elimination of traditional incandescent bulbs as part of the directive on eco-design of energy using products (EuP its acronym in English).
The draft proposal aims to phase out conventional incandescent bulbs and leave the halogens on the market until 2016 [1], which seriously reduces the potential burlap texture energy savings, taking into account the change in technology that will take ten years to complete. Environmentalists call on governments to prohibit not only incandescent bulbs but also the standard halogens (conventional gas or xenon) and the implementation period is shortened burlap texture to five years for the halogens do not flood the market in the range.
Ecologists in Action believes that we must take further steps to manage mercury from fluorescent burlap texture light bulbs. With the expected increase in use, the EU should be prepared to manage them when they become hazardous waste due to their mercury content. To minimize the risks posed by mercury in these lamps, European law imposes selective collection [2]. For now, less than a third of these lamps is collected and treated properly.
Consumers need more information on how and where waste mercury-containing lamps and what to do when broken should pull. Management should ensure that switching to efficient technologies as a means of combating climate change will not create an additional problem of mercury contamination. Ecologists in Action has written to the ministries of Industry and the Environment to require that the regions implement a good system for collection and treatment of WEEE.
Ecologists in Action has also asked manufacturers in the packaging of the lamps and the internet detailing information about the risks associated with these residues and instructions for separate collection and accidental breakage [3]. Also expected that research on energy efficient lamps without toxic products, such as LED is encouraged.
The Directive burlap texture on Energy Using Products (EuP) must impose ambitious goals set up collection and recycling and encourage appropriate investment in technology research safer and more efficient lighting so to promote energy savings and reduce CO2 emissions in the European Union.
[1] The incandescent bulbs are the traditional filament bulbs, one method of least energy efficient lighting. These bulbs are cheap but consume a lot of energy and are responsible for a large amount of CO2 emissions. The alternatives available to such bulbs are halogen burlap texture bulbs, which are not very efficient; compact fluorescent tubes, which are 75% more efficient than incandescent bulbs and last longer but they contain mercury, a dangerous burlap texture toxic to health and the environment; and light emitting diodes (LED), a very efficient technology, which does not contain toxic substances, which is already used in traffic lights and signs, but still can not compete with other more powerful lamps for lighting.
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