China Reduce Mercury Content Incandescent

                            

KOMPAS.com - The Chinese government step by step reduce mercury content in fluorescent lamps (CFL) to 80 percent through 2015. This policy actually has been running since 2010, wrote Xinhua on Tuesday (02/26/2013).

The content of mercury would be reduced to 1 milligram in half CFL lighting products. This policy is under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MITI).

Up to 2014, the reduction in the mercury content of 50 percent. That means, had 0.5 milligrams of mercury is eliminated in the CFL.

much mercury reduction policy to be part of China's policy in saving energy consumption. "This effort is also to promote green energy," the MITI.