The Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced recently that energy-saving lamps, which used to cost 10 yuan in the market, will be introduced nationwide this year. From now on, people can get energy-saving lamps for 1 yuan with their id card.
This livelihood project has made many consumers see the dawn of energy saving: the use of financial subsidies to promote energy-saving lamps, on the one hand, in the purchase price of the people to attract people to buy;On the other hand, it also introduced enterprises with a certain scale and strength to the public to improve people's awareness of energy-saving lamps, which indirectly played a role in eliminating small manufacturers and purifying the market. However, some consumers expressed their concerns.
Whether saving energy saves money
Some consumers said, based on past experience, the government subsidies to buy energy-saving lamps, in addition to show id card, but also to fill in the name, address and telephone.Due to the limited quantity, some places have to limit the purchase of each ID card to no more than how many.Therefore, the limited number of energy-saving lamps is not enough to satisfy the whole market, which means that residents still need to buy them from the market.
Related data show that China's lighting electricity consumption accounts for more than 12% of the whole society, if the existing ordinary incandescent lamps are replaced with energy-saving lamps, China's annual electricity saving will reach 60 billion kilowatt-hours, close to the annual generation of a Three Gorges project.
This data shows that there is still a lot of room for development in the use of energy-saving lamps in China.However, the quality of energy-saving lamps is uneven in the market, which affects the enthusiasm of consumers to buy.
Mr. MAO, the head of a barbershop, bought more than 40 energy-saving lamps from the supermarket when the shop was being renovated.As the months went by, one CFL after another broke down.Over the years for a number of batches, a careful account, not only did not save money, but take a lot of money to buy lights.
"I have used CFLS of other brands before. Although it saves electricity, it is not cost-effective from an economic point of view because of the short life of the lamps."Mr. Ye, from Wenzhou, told the media that while shopping in a supermarket, he was intrigued by an electronic energy-saving light bulb that had an eight-year life span marked prominently on the front of its package.Although it costs 33 yuan, Ye thinks it should have an edge over its peers.When He returned home, Mr Ye found that the front of the package was marked with a lifespan of eight years in large lette. on the inside of the package was written in small, inconspicuous lette. the life of the package was up to eight years, based on 2.7 hours of use per day.
It should be said that after years of publicity and promotion, energy-saving lamps have been generally recognized by consumers.However, although the price of some energy-saving lamps is cheap, but the quality is difficult to guarantee, easy to damage, so that some residents who have used inferior energy-saving lamps think energy-saving lamps save electricity not money.Some consumers report that while the government is promoting energy-saving lamps into households, the passing rate of energy-saving lamps is low, especially in the rural market.
In March this year, shenyang city is consumed the part that association sells to Shenyang saves energy lamp commodity to carry out comparison test.The 20 kinds of CFL samples that participated in the comparative experiment were purchased randomly in some local supermarkets and professional lamp markets by the staff of consumer association as ordinary consumers, and the origin involved 20 enterprises in Guangdong, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places.After inspection, the pass rate of energy-saving lamps is only 50%.Not long ago, a sampling test of energy-saving lamps in Guangdong province found that only 10 percent passed the test.Just over half of the energy-saving lamps on the market in Shanxi Province passed the standard, according to the latest quality inspection report on energy-saving lamps released by the province.
Recycling is still blank
When a CFLS break, the mercury inside them escapes, and if not handled properly, it can have a huge impact on the environment.When 1 mg of mercury sinks into the ground, it contaminates about 360 tons of water.If it is not recycled in time, it will cause serious mercury pollution to 180 tons of water if one CFL tube contains 0.5 mg mercury on average.According to statistics, the recovery rate of energy-saving lamps in China is less than 1%.
Since 2008, China has been promoting energy-efficient lamps through financial subsidies, and so far 62 million bulbs have been put into the market at low prices.So what happens to the 62 million CFLS?Moreover, due to the poor quality of some CFLS on the market, many residents are also worried about the waste CFLS saved at home.
Ms. Mo said that since the use of CFLS, the family has replaced nearly 20 lights, waste CFLS piled in storage, and worried about mercury pollution in the tube, finally had to throw in the district waste battery recycling box.
Salespeople at Beijing's Incredibly Home shopping mall say few people are willing to recycle their waste energy-saving lamps.Because of the low market price of mercury, the high cost of recycling the bulbs and the difficulty of transporting them, some scrap stations are also reluctant to buy abandoned CFLS.
According to the new hazardous waste list issued by the state, the waste energy saving lamps produced by residents are not hazardous waste, so there is no corresponding recycling channel.Many consumers have called on relevant departments to set up recycling points for waste energy-saving lamps as soon as possible.
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Many countries and regions have taken action to promote energy-saving lamps.On March 1, 2009, Ireland will become the first country in the world to ban incandescent light bulbs.The century-old lighting technology is no longer sold in all stores in the country.From 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM on March 28, 2009, 74 cities in 62 countries and regions turned off their lights for one hour to raise public awareness of environmental protection.Japan plans to phase out incandescent light bulbs nationwide by 2012 in favor of energy-saving bulbs, which could save about two million tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year.
In China's big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, they also take the lead in advocating the use of energy-saving lamps in public facilities and street lighting at night.According to statistics, if the country's outdoor landscape lights (about 6 million kilowatts in total) were extinguished from midnight to early morning, 8.8 billion kilowatt-hours could be saved every year, and 8.46 million tons of carbon dioxide would be reduced accordingly
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