Recovery of funds is a problem for Current lighting
The lack of collection channels, cross-departmental responsibilities, lack of financial subsidies also lead to energy-saving lamps difficult to deal with.
In China, there is no clear mandatory to recycling waste energy-saving lamps, the most can only rely on the public consciously collected.
Some small range of companies carry out the “old for new service” and so on to encourage consumers to recycle the discarded bulbs, but one well-known domestic production responsible person told reporters. The most is “image projects”, the large-scale expansion are basically impossible.
Many companies feel that this should be the duty of the government. “According to the current market price of the energy-saving lamps, if borne by the enterprise, it would not pay.” The official said.
At foreign country, energy saving lamp disposal costs are often borne by the government and manufacturers. Each manufacturers sell a lamp, they are necessary to come up with a sum of money, and the money is used for energy-saving lamp recycling and disposal.
The official said that the energy-saving lamps in current lighting led projects production enterprise, the company’s products exported to the U.S. they do not consider the problem of recycling, but it requires the U.S. government to pay certain taxes, by the other side to deal with the waste products.
Li Wei, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Enterprise Association has said that Shanghai do not have the special waste lamp cost, sanitation department is also in coordination with the Development and Reform Commission, hoping to formulate “Shanghai renewable resource management approach (draft)”, that can be further expanded. Some part of the recycling directory, and part of the energy-saving lamp included, and solving part of the source of funding.
Guo Hua, deputy chief engineer of the Shanghai City Appearance and Planning Bureau also suggested that, in view of the imperfect disposal system, and disposal costs difficult to drop at, so the industry insider have suggested that let mercury enterprises take participate in the recycling of waste lamps.
In the European Union, the United States, Japan and other countries and regions, the energy-saving lamps replace incandescent are earlier than China, the recycling of waste lamps do relatively well.