What is energy-saving lamps mercury pollution

Energy-saving lamps mercury pollution is refers to the energy-saving lamps which is mainly composed of filament, mercury and phosphor powder material, and the low boiling point of mercury, room temperature can evaporate, abandoned after energy-saving lamp tube broken, instantaneous can make around one hundred times on the chroma of mercury in air. And a common energy-saving lamps mercury levels on average about 0. 5 mg, only enough with a round bead pen, but if the improper disposal, after it into the underground, according to the theory 1 mg of mercury can be 360 tons of water pollution, 0. 5 mg of mercury may be about 180 tons of water pollution and soil around. Thus causing problems such as environmental pollution, which is referred to as a 'energy-saving lamps mercury pollution'.

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